Word: limits
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...have presented him a report by the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment on the problem of nuclear proliferation. "I know you're working right in the middle of this now," Glenn tells the President, "and I think it's very important." Carter notes that the U.S. can limit its reliance on nuclear power-and thus cut back the production of reprocessed nuclear fuel that can be used for bombs-because it has adequate coal and oil reserves. Other nations, notably West Germany and Japan, are not so fortunate, he says. Then he gives the Senators some news...
Carter gives the labor leaders little satisfaction. He says the U.S. is attempting to get foreign nations, especially Japan, to invest in the U.S. and thus help create jobs. It would be counterproductive to do that on the one hand and move aggressively to limit Japanese imports on the other. His firmly put conclusion: "Your members are also American citizens; what concerns the rest of the country also concerns them. And one of the things that concerns the rest of the country is inflation. When you put tremendous restraints on imports, it has an enormous effect on inflation...
...proposal also begins for the first time to get a handle on the problem of qualitative improvements. [The U.S. package would require both sides to forgo certain systems that are now in the planning stage.] Rather than letting the cruise missile run free, our proposal would put a limit on the range, and that's something that should interest the Soviets. I think the Soviets recognize that we really have to make real cuts. How deep they are prepared to go I don't know. We will have to wait...
Francis M. Pipkin, asociate dean of the Faculty who chairs CUE, said last night that opening elite concentrations "does not necessarily mean you have more people." Instead of having a committee limit the number of students in its program, the elite concentrations can be made "self-selecting, in the sense that they are harder," Pipkin said...
...foreign language requirement of the Committee on History and Literature currently serves to limit enrollment in that program, Behrman said...