Word: limiting
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...offense-defense linkage that we established in 1972 with the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks is the basis of the kind of linkage we should have today. In SALT I the Soviets wanted to limit only defense. We were concerned about their offensive buildup, so we insisted on including limits on offense as well. We're in the same situation now. They want to limit defense, and we want to limit offense. I'm saying, let's talk about how to do both together...
Rules vary from league to league, but basically each team starts the season with a set limit of real dollars (in the American Dreams, $260) with which to assemble an imaginary team of 23 real major leaguers, hired at a cutthroat auction that is equal parts puzzle and poker game. Up to 13 players can be held over from the previous year; the rest are purchased on draft day. The players -- nine pitchers, six infielders, five outfielders, two catchers and a designated hitter -- compete, in aggregate, in eight statistical categories over the course of the 162-game regular season...
TODAY'S SPEED limit of 55 translates into an unenforced speed limit of about 65 miles per hour. Of course, there will always be the 75 year-old women who--barely able to see over the steering wheel--will drive 50 mph in the left lane and, oblivious to the glare of your brights and the honk of your horn, refuse to let you pass. And there will always be the guys in souped-up Chevy the right lane going 80 and to whom you yell "jeez, what an asshole"--who will break the speed limit no matter what...
Raising the speed limit to 65 would probably benefit truckers, who could travel 10 more miles every hour. But the costs of this aren't worth it. The increase in highway fatalities alone would offset this benefit. If one more person died because of an increase in the speed limit, it would not be worth...
Most of all, however, a 65 mph speed limit would translate into an unwritten 75 limit without beefed-up enforcement measures. Yet for a lot less money than that would cost, the government can keep the unofficial speed limit at 65 by leaving the official limit where...