Word: limits
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...earlier session of the Conference Board, a private research group. Many of its elements reflect conservative business thinking. Like the Carter transition staffs program, the Jones plan calls for $15 billion in tax cuts for individuals-but Jones would make them permanent, not temporary. That would tend to limit the size of the Federal Government in the future, by reducing the revenues available to start new social programs. To boost investment in new plant and equipment, the Jones plan also specifies an increase in the investment tax credit, to 13% from the current...
Kissinger is concerned that a shortage of Russian scholars may limit cultural interchange between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, and harm the two nations' diplomatic relations, Richard E. Pipes, professor of History and former director of the Russian Research Center said this week...
...every researcher is so overwhelmingly optimistic about the project's long-range effects. Doug Kalish, one of the researchers, fears that the ground-breaking work may cause problems of enormous--maybe elephantine--proportions. "There is no limit to the size that we can make these beads. With a large enough bead, even an elephant can be trapped," Kalish warns. "The hazards that these beads may present to the community has yet to be determined...
...last week poured out details of his undercover adventures to FBI agents at a secret location near Washington. To the astonishment of U.S. officials, Kim had defected rather than obey Seoul's order to return home and thus limit further exposure of the Koreagate scandal (TIME, Nov. 29). Fearing possible imprisonment and torture, perhaps even death, Kim sought asylum in exchange for supplying information and documents that the Justice Department had been seeking for more than a year. In addition, TIME learned, he may have turned over the codes used by Korean diplomats and KCIA agents...
...Christmas season, Americans will have bought some 3 million of them this year-at least ten times as many as in 1975. Some of the leading makers, notably Atari, Fairchild and Magnavox, have plants working overtime and still cannot meet the demand. Nor, it seems, is there any limit to the TV games people will eventually play. By TIME's count, there are already more than 50 different varieties of video contests available, from tennis to tank warfare to ticktacktoe...