Word: limits
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Thus there was great pressure on the House last week as it considered a proposal from a special congressional commission, appointed last year by then Speaker Carl Albert, to limit the Representatives' outside income and require public disclosure of all income sources and most large debts. The members had been stung by the angry letters and editorials about their recent pay hike from $44,600 to $57,500. Proposed by the Ford Administration and supported by President Carter, it went into effect automatically on February 20 because Congress made no attempt to block it. This procedure had been...
...fishermen hope that it was an omen. Reason: Shanty Girl was the first dragger to dock at New Bedford, the region's largest fishing port, since a new law took effect on March 1, extending U.S. jurisdiction over fishing in coastal waters to 200 miles from the old limit of twelve. The law is intended to save from extinction many species of fish-as well as much of the U.S. fishing industry...
Some fishermen argue that the Government should prohibit foreign fishing altogether in U.S. waters. But most welcome the new law, even though the quotas also limit their catches. Already, the promise of greater return is spurring some new investment. Next year 21 new steel-hulled vessels will be added to New Bedford's 175-boat fishing fleet...
...Hitch. Washington took care to get foreign fishing nations to sign prior agreements to abide by the 200-mile U.S. limit. They could scarcely object because most had enacted 200-mile limits of their own, much to the discomfort of U.S. fishermen who net shrimp in the Gulf of Mexico and tuna in the Pacific off Ecuador and Peru...
...will be faced by more problems than they can solve in their own time," Brandt said, so they must limit the problems they attempt to deal with and "concentrate on a few concrete tasks...