Word: limits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Twenty miles is the physical limit of non-destructive running. By that point, a runner has used up all his expendable energy. After that, proteins and muscles start tearing down. That's why Heartbreak Hill is so torturous. If it were during the first ten miles of the race, the insidiously gentle two-mile ascent up to Boston College would raise nary an eyebrow. But instead, it must be dealt with at the runner's true breaking point--when every cell in his body starts screaming surrender...
...conferred with Defense Secretary Harold Brown and others on the next steps in negotiations with the Soviet Union on a new treaty to limit nuclear arms. What is more, he and his lieutenants are in the midst of formulating new policies covering trade, taxes, welfare, agriculture and public works...
Earlier this month, Dean Fox came under heavy criticism because he did not offer students a chance to discuss his suggestion to limit full breakfasts to only four Houses before he decided the issue...
When CHUL considered in February 1976 a similar proposal to limit the number of Houses serving full breakfasts as a potential cost-cutting device, students and workers objected virulently to the inconvenience and loss of jobs the change would have caused. In defeating the measure by a vote of 20-2, the committee requested that the Food Services department "look into the possibility of opening the Freshman Union on weekends," but CHUL in no way indicated that the re-opening of the Union should necessitate any undesirable changes in the breakfast service offered by the Houses...
Stressing energy conservation rather than stepped-up production as his predecessors have done. Carter said he hopes to limit overall energy consumption increases to 2 per cent annually. Such a cutdown would represent a substantial reduction from the present rate of 3.5 to 4 per cent...