Word: limits
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...special about that week? A lot. It was the week in which Congress passed the Bill of Rights. Washington finished naming his first Cabinet, as well as the first Supreme Court. France was catching fire, with new reports on the fall of the Bastille. But TIME does not limit itself to politics. In September of 1789, Mozart has just been commissioned to write a comic opera (Cost Fan Tutte), and TIME'S Books section reviews a new book of poems, Songs of Innocence, by a young Englishman named William Blake...
...need to regain the conservative voters he has scared off than to continue to try to recruit new strength from the left. France's recovery from its bout with recession and inflation-down from a rate of 15% two years ago to just under 10% today-may help limit the erosion of Giscard's support. But he faces a difficult long-term task in persuading France's voters that the time has not yet come to give the left a chance to rule...
...victory was written into a new pay-policy agreement concluded by the government and leaders of the powerful Trades Union Congress that aims at slashing Britain's inflation rate (currently 12%) by combining a tough 4½% average limit on wage hikes with a cut in taxes (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS...
Though the limit on raises is more lenient than the 3% that Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey originally proposed, it is considerably tighter than the policy now in effect, which holds pay boosts to limit took effect last summer, British prices were rising at a blistering annual rate of 25%; now the pace has slowed to 12%. The government hopes to halve the inflation...
...Agriculture committees. Despite some safeguards, its main thrust is to direct the Forest Service to issue guidelines for timber management-thus giving it a free hand to do business as usual. The other bill, sponsored by West Virginia Democratic Senator Jennings Randolph, would set controls on timbering and specifically limit clear-cutting to 25-acre plots in national forests. A fight is expected on the Senate floor later this month...