Word: limiting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...neighborhood association seeking to limit development in East Harvard Square, blocking a possible University plan to build a hotel across the street from the Freshman Union, has decided to compromise on its proposal to drastically rezone the area...
What was the hang-up? In a word, says an Alyeska supervisor, "complacency." Lulled by almost twelve years of oil shipping through Valdez without a major accident, Alyeska let its old equipment run down to the point that it was taxed to the limit when it cleaned up a small spill of a mere 1,500 bbl. in January. Workers who had been hired to devote full time to combatting oil spills were replaced by people whose primary duties lay elsewhere. The state government failed to keep Alyeska up to the mark; the legislature denied its watchdog agency funds...
Glasnost remains Gorbachev's biggest hit. Only 10%, obviously the conservative traditionalists, contend that there is too much openness, with more than one-fifth of those over 60 claiming that glasnost has already gone too far. Young people are the most eager to press openness to the limit. In ; the under-30 group, 37% demand more glasnost...
...question of it being the 'least bad' alternative. In the long run, it's ultimately more honest [to limit enrollment]," he says...
...What I would like to see is capping in courses where we know we won't be able to staff it above a certain limit, like in lab courses because of space limitations, or in extremely large courses, like those in the Core," says Pilbeam. "It's a more responsible reaction on our part to put together a strong academic program, which is after all our priority...