Word: limiting
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...students, you have parents trying to beat the game," says Harold Howe II, chairman of the College Board Commission on Precollege Guidance and Counseling. The result is a growing industry in private advisers. Says Barbara Wolfson, who sent her son to a private counselor in Atlanta: "There's a limit to what the school counselors can do." For fees of up to $2,500, private advisers take the time to find out a student's strengths and interests, put together a list of likely choices and assist with the application process. Most stress that their aim is to help...
Still, in the immediate future, education, not medicine, may well be the single most important weapon in stemming the spread of AIDS. Educational campaigns directed at homosexuals, urging them to limit their number of sex partners and adopt "safe sex" practices, have already paid off. A study conducted at the University of California, Berkeley has shown, for example, that the rate of new AIDS infections among gay men in San Francisco fell from an 18% increase each year between 1982 and 1984 to only about...
...Cambridge state representative introduced a bill to the legislature last week that will limit state contracts with companies doing business in or with South Africa or Namibia...
...said one major change the committee brought about was the institution of a 10 percent limit on the number of students whose grades would fall into the lower two categories. The committee did not receive enough support from the student body to propose the elimination of the curve system, he added...
Nowhere was consternation over the hostages greater than in Washington, where both the Administration and Congress came near to blaming the victims for their own abductions. In a White House statement, President Reagan conceded that "there is a limit to what our Government can do for Americans in a chaotic situation such as that in Lebanon." The State Department barred U.S. citizens from traveling to Lebanon and said it would revoke U.S. passports of Americans living there. However, most of the 1,500 residents who are affected by the order also have citizenship in other countries...