Word: limits
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...surprise. Ever since animal tests in the early '70s renewed concern that the chemical might be a carcinogen, the FDA has been slowly moving toward a ban. By 1972 it had taken the sweetener from its "generally recognized as safe" list and warned food and beverage companies to limit the saccharin levels in their products...
...college basketball. No single team has dominated the game as have U.C.L.A. and Indiana, but evenly matched good teams abound. The number of talented players is so large and so evenly distributed that Arkansas Coach Eddie Sutton could, with few exceptions, adhere to a self-imposed 500-mile recruiting limit and still field a 26-1 team. Traditional powerhouses such as U.C.L.A., North Carolina and Kentucky made the top 20, but so did newcomers Detroit, North Carolina-Charlotte, Utah and Arkansas. Back in the fold are such born-agains as San Francisco, back-to-back national champions during the Bill...
Last Tuesday the Living Newspaper included seven short dramatizations. One centered on new regulations for nuclear plant security that are used to justify surveillance and harassment of anti-nuclear groups and leftist organizations. Another touched on recent Supreme Court decisions that seem to limit the rights of minority groups...
Circumstances that lead to social oppression seem to be presented as a simple matter of personal conspiracies. For example, one item from the Is Dis a System? Department told how Blue Cross and Blue Shield recently decided to limit coverage for radical mastectomies because more women were now requesting them. The presentation seemed to imply that the administrators of Blue Shield were consciously out to torment women...
...compete to some extent with other health insurance plans. To remain solvent it can provide medical coverage only in those areas it can afford, or it can raise its rates and risk losing business to competing health plans. Granted, it is not clear that Blue Shield's decision to limit coverage for breast reconstruction was based solely on economics. But if that were the case, it would merely illustrate the fact that the social utility of programs like Blue Cross-Blue Shield is limited by the system under which they are organized--capitalism--and not necessarily by the personal prejudices...