Word: limiting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Censorship is a game that makes for underground, intellectual, guerrilla warfare. It puts thinkers and artists in the position of continually devising a strategy to push the limits of what can be said. But for the other kind of censor--the limit of acceptability inside someone's mind--that "strategy" is just another word for innovation...
...they try to get by on their own. Reason: they may have the double burden of child custody and a lack of marketable job skills. Carol Kuypers, 32, of Harper Woods in suburban Detroit, earns $13,500 as an accounting clerk, or about 61 cents a week over the limit for getting federal food assistance. The unmarried mother of a 15-month-old son, she has to spend $200 a month for day care, which eats up about one-quarter of her take-home pay. For help with room and board, she has taken in her brother John, a factory...
Many U.S. businessmen are opposed to either corporate withdrawals or sanctions. "There's a limit on what U.S. companies can do to end apartheid," says a top executive of a major American company with operations in South Africa. "It is a matter for South Africans to decide. The sanctions and withdrawals could hurt the South African people by pulling the rug from under the moderates." That, of course, is the justification many U.S. firms used for opening operations in South Africa in the first place and for remaining so long. But as last week's startling reassessments showed, more...
...Ours is the only tax cap that will have any effect at all," she said, saying that the tax cap proposed by CLT would provide stability by setting a limit on annual tax revenue...
They said that the rigid codification of rulesthat would be necessary to eradicate suchambiguity would limit the University's ability torespond flexibly to offenses against it,introducing more hazards than benefits. A heavilylegalistic disciplinary system would compromiseideals of trust and respect that are central tothe Univeristy's mission, members said...