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Word: limiting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...could be adjusted to fit the severity of the crime. Since there is a $2 profit limit those making $2.10 would suffer a vigorous verbal rebuke. Those scalpers making a profit of $2.50 would be stripped, smeared in honey, and the with Harvard Food Service. Those scalpers making a percent of $200 would become the involuntary donors of rejected what organs...

Author: By Christopher J. Farley, | Title: The Rock Concert Blues | 2/16/1985 | See Source »

...Harvard student who has no choice but to live off-campus is not getting a full Harvard education, but year after year it admits so many students that this has to happen. A first, extremely useful step--for the alleviation of more than the transfer problem--is to limit the number of freshmen it lets in each year so that everyone who wants to be housed can be housed. Considering the University's rhetoric about the above-average performance of transfers, one would think this to be a reasonable solution. It can also make clear to prospective transfer students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In From the Cold | 2/11/1985 | See Source »

...from sure his evaluation was correct, and I said as much to Fedorenko, who agreed: "One can hardly trust the Arabs. There is no limit to their stupidity. Let's wait and see what Moscow says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Breaking with Moscow | 2/11/1985 | See Source »

...party, government administration and other institutions. These positions are filled by direct party appointment or with party approval. Nomenklatura is a caste system that applies only to the elite class. Its many levels enjoy varying degrees of privilege according to rank. For Politburo members there is no limit or restriction on privileges. Below this level the grading structure begins. The Central Committee defines the place of anyone eligible for inclusion in the various categories: high party apparatchiki, Cabinet ministers, diplomats or individuals with unusual abilities or exceptional talents such as artists, scientists, Olympic champions and the like. Factory workers, farmers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nomenklatura, A FOSSILIZED ELITE | 2/11/1985 | See Source »

...racquetmen had no trouble handling Tufts, as eight of nine players breezed to either 3-0 or 3-1 victories. The one close match was played at number two, where Tuft's Wes Baker took David Boyum to the limit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Raquetmen Topple Tufts | 2/6/1985 | See Source »

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