Word: limiting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...brevity, Kissinger's thesis was 388 pages even after sections had been omitted. He wrote, "The length is due to the fact that I did not realize the implications of the subject when I started work on this thesis." The Government Department thereafter instituted a 120-page limit for senior theses, and students are expected to consider all of the implications of a subject before sitting down at the typewriter...
...where will all the flowers go? Possibly to the graveyards of the economic reforms. The record of the anti-rightist campaign as well as the experience of the attempt to limit the spread of Western and "bourgeois" ideas, the drive against "spiritual pollution" only three years ago, indicates that such movements inevitably spill over into the economic sphere...
...starters, both trains were speeding: the Amtrak passenger train was 23 miles over its limit of 105 m.p.h., and the Conrail freight locomotives were traveling at 62 to 65 m.p.h., although a signal had warned the crew to slow down...
...week's end it was clear that the government intended not only to clamp down on new demonstrations but sharply limit future political discussion and purge officials who have gone too far in advocating reform. Rumor had it that at least one official had already been removed: Fang Lizhi, a vice president of the University of Science and Technology in Hefei, who has strongly supported demands for more democracy. The biggest loser, however, may be Politburo Member Hu Qili, a leading advocate of political reform, whose position as a likely successor to Hu Yaobang as Communist Party General Secretary seems...
...There are always problems with new aircraft," explains Lieut. General William Thurman, commander of the aeronautical systems division responsible for the B-1B. "There's nothing wrong we won't be able to fix." But many observers contend that the fundamental shortcomings of weight and fuel consumption will permanently limit the utility of the airplane. Even Air Force insiders doubt the ability of the troubled electronic jamming system to assure the B-1B's mission to penetrate Soviet airspace. In particular, the black boxes are designed to protect the plane from attack from below, yet the new Soviet...