Word: limits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...defeat of California's nuclear proposition last June may have been caused by fears that existing nuclear plants might have to be shut down, thus causing unemployment and economic loss, environmentalists are concentrating on future nuclear-plant construction. In general their proposals would remove the $560 million federal limit that now exists on the total amount of damages that could be claimed by victims of a nuclear accident; forbid new plants to operate unless the state's legislators were convinced that all major safety systems would operate properly in an emergency; require that the legislators be satisfied that...
...economic game plan to save the pound-and the British economy. That plan calls for reducing the British inflation rate, currently 14.3% a year, by moderately cutting public spending and holding the nation's militant trade unions to a "social contract" under which they are supposed to limit wage increases to 4½% a year. The government's hope is to hang on through the winter. By spring, according to its script, oil from the North Sea will flow in sufficient quantity so that Britain can begin to cut its bills for imported oil, thus reducing its towering...
...prepare yourself and your car in order to drive at the absolute limit, to be on the edge. The whole effort is done so that you can reach the point where it becomes dangerous...
...Limit. Lauda and Hunt seesawed through races in Canada and at Watkins Glen, N.Y. Then came Japan and once more the rain. As track attendants tried to whisk water off the course with bamboo brooms, drivers met twice to decide whether or not they would run. The drizzle continued as fog settled on the track; twilight was coming. Finally, a last vote was taken, and the decision to race was made. Hunt, starting in the first row, skidded through the first turn and took the lead. Lauda, one row back, went once around the course in the blinding spray from...
Niki Lauda, who had raced once before when he thought it unsafe and nearly died, would not go to the edge with Hunt this last time. "For me," he said, "it was the limit. For me, there is something more important than the world championship...