Word: limiting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sure-handed in business dealings, Smith sometimes seems all thumbs when it comes to dealing with the public. He has antagonized shareholders by trying to limit their questions to management at annual meetings. He infuriated the United Auto Workers in 1982 when he became involved in pay negotiations. After Smith repeatedly complained that workers were overpaid and cost cutting was needed to regain a competitive position, GM announced a richer bonus plan for top executives on the very day that the union signed a contract accepting wage concessions. Admitted Smith afterward: "I'd rather it hadn't happened...
...there is a limit to the size of the memorial, so tourists will not get a chance to see everything from Ronald Reagan's career. Missing will be the interviews and speeches he gave throughout the '60s and '70s suggesting that Social Security no longer be compulsory (In 1966, he said, "Social Security ought to be voluntary." In 1980, he said, "I never suggested that Social Security should be voluntary"). Gone will be the suggestions that the United States re-establish diplomatic relations with Taiwan ("I misstated"), his endorsement of a unified Jerusalem under Israeli sovereignty, and the campaign promise...
...reminded of S.J. Perelman, who wrote: "Outside of a spring lamb trotting into a slaughterhouse, there is nothing in the animal kingdom as innocent and foredoomed as the new purchaser of a country place. The moment he scratches his signature on the deed, it is open season and no limit...
...Lawrence Washburn Jr., 48, an attorney whom Baby Jane's parents have come to see as their tormentor. In mid-October, Washburn, a longtime antiabortion activist, first sued to force doctors to ignore the parents' decision and correct by surgery some of the birth defects that now limit the infant's life expectancy to two years. The state's highest court ruled that, as an outsider, Washburn had no standing to sue and that there was no need to take decisions about the medical treatment of Baby Jane out of the hands of her parents...
...President Bok has apparently set out to limit each master to a five-year term. Currently, a master's appointment is understood to last five years, with the option of yearly extensions...