Word: limits
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David S. Landes, Goelet Professor of French History, said yesterday, "Given the scope of Professor Handlin's indiscretion, I can well understand his desire to limit the damage...
Cousteau called the U.S. unilateral declaration of a 200-mile offshore fishing limit an "untimely mistake." He said the move effectively scuttled international efforts to define offshore fishing limits...
...each decade-the '50s and the '60s-the world consumed more than had been used up in all previous human history. Oil production should peak out around the world in the early 1990s. The world, which is now consuming about 60 million bbl. a day, faces a limit on production somewhere around 75 million or 80 million bbl. a day. That means in five years' time we may have chewed up most of the possibility of further expansion of oil production...
...check the ship's cleaning and packing facilities and its refrigerated hold; the other team headed for the skipper's cabin to inspect the ship's log. The record of the trawler's fishing activities disclosed that the Shevchenko had significantly exceeded the permitted limit on river herring-a protected species. According to the log, most of the fish had been transferred to the trawler's mother ship, which was already outside the 200-mile zone, but 16 tons had been loaded onto a second cargo vessel, the Antanas Snechkus, which was still...
There are, of course, valid questions to be raised about the ERA'S impact. Among these: the status of women should the U.S. resume a military draft, the fate of laws that limit demands on the physical strength of women laborers, and the future of previously all-male sports like football at public schools. But in Florida, as in other states where the ERA has lost, the phantom issues, not the realities, carried the day. Complains the chairwoman of Georgia's ERA Council, Dotsie Holmes: "The legislators are all too willing to succumb to the hysterical group...