Word: limits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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According to the memo, Currier, the Freshman Union, and three as yet unspecified River Houses will serve full breakfasts throughout the week and the weekend, while the other eight Houses will limit their breakfast menus, saving substantially on labor costs...
Regarding internal policy, the new government is likely to be more conservative than Gandhi's. To protect their interests, BLD members will try to slow down the inplementation of land reforms, particularly the Land Ceiling Acts which limit the amount of property an individual may own. However, rural India will benefit from the decentralized administrative policies and the small-scale village industries which the Janata party advocates. Urban private industry will find the new government more cooperative, with H.M. Patel, a firm believer in free enterprise, as Minister of Finance. Of course, the Socialists would oppose any conservative trends, espcially...
...programs: the memories of Senators and Congressmen run long, and they can nurse their grudges as bitterly as the Medici. With the possible exception of motherhood, there is nothing more sacred to many members of Congress than the physical evidences of the power that Carter is trying to limit: gigantic dams, huge reservoirs, aqueducts that run for hundreds of miles, all proof-cast in concrete-of the legislators' concern for the folks back home. What is more, there is no sure way of measuring the true value of such projects, many of which have transformed the life...
...still "quite attainable." If that was achieved, the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. could "move forward to a mutual reduction of armaments." Brezhnev also sketched out a proposal for gradual Israeli withdrawal from occupied Arab territories and hinted that the Russians might be receptive to Carter's proposal to limit the international arms trade...
...Sampson did not always limit his activities to serious hypnosis. He was on the stage until about 15 years ago, when Sampson said his life changed dramatically. One night he signed to do a performance for a local charity drive for the "Ship Hope" project. "I was told to put the whole audience to sleep so that the ushers could have a look through everyone's wallets--for a good cause of course," he adds. "It was after the M.C. thanked him personally that Sampson suddenly realized that hypnosis could be used for productive ends, beyond entertaining the rich...