Word: limiting
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...Soviet Union's offensive capacity. The Soviets now have 6,400 such warheads, while the U.S. has 2,125. Moscow's new formula, TIME Washington Bureau Chief Strobe Talbott learned, would allow each of the superpowers no more than 3,600 ICBM warheads. More specifically, the Soviet proposal would limit what Moscow calls "nuclear charges" (bombs, cruise missiles and ballistic-missile warheads) to 6,000 per side. No more than 60% of that figure, or 3,600, would be allowed on any one category of weapons system, such as ICBMs. In 1982 Reagan had proposed that each side be allowed...
...shortage of actors and technical workers this fall for Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club productions may force a limit on the number of plays done in the future, club president David G. Victor '87 said Sunday...
Such defensiveness would have seemed unlikely a few weeks ago. Not since Smoot-Hawley days had Washington witnessed such an explosion of demand to limit imports as occurred in August and early September. Fretted Sir Roy Denman, Ambassador of the European Community to Washington: "We have seen protectionist sentiment before, but never anything like this...
Quotas often come thinly disguised as "voluntary" pacts between trading partners. Under polite but firm pressure from the European Community, the Japanese agreed to limit shipments of quartz watches, hi-fi equipment and computer-controlled machine tools. The U.S. has won similar promises from 15 steel exporters, including Brazil and the European Community...
...some breathing space with voluntary quotas on imports has not produced results. Even if shipments from the major exporters can be slowed, the industry fears smaller producers will step in to take up the slack. So far, only one-third of the 76 steel-producing nations have agreed to limit their exports, and some agreements have loopholes. Korea and Japan, for instance, refused to include certain steel components for offshore oil rigs in their import quotas...