Word: limiting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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THINKING UP WAYS of dodging the speed limit has always been one of those things that spice up a long drive through the boondocks. Keeping one eye on the highway and the other a half-mile up the road to sniff out a speed trap; perfecting the technique of hitting the brakes--but not too hard--when you see Smokey zap you with his radar gun; offering a revolutionary excuse to the trooper as he asks for your license and registration--these are all classic features of intercity travel in America...
This past summer, though, has seen the dawn of utterly humorless, downright wimpy police approaches to enforcing the speed limit...
...thing if the police want to bag people for flouting the 55 mile-an-hour speed limit. But it's another if they want to be sissies...
...m.p.h. speed limit does have a lot going for it. It saves gas. It saves lives...
There's more. Down at City Hall, Harvard has consistently used its muscle as Cambridge's largest landlord to oppose new zoning petitions designed to limit real estate development. Even when the community's best interest is at stake, Harvard has pursued its own agenda and systematically opposed height restrictions and preservation measures in Harvard Square. Last spring the University even thwarted a legislative effort to require commercial developers to build low income housing in the city...