Word: limits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...contract for the new post will not have a time limit, effectively tenuring the director of choral activities...
...million. From the Silver Slipper till, Hughes in 1970 withdrew at least $1 million for his personal projects. The money was in small-denomination, old bills, which could not be traced by tax authorities. Thus he could contribute to his favored candidates more than the $3,000 tax-free limit that prevailed until 1972. As the Watergate investigations later disclosed, Hughes in 1970 sent President Nixon $100,000 in hundred-dollar bills, which were given to Charles ("Bebe") Rebozo in two installments in manila envelopes. There has been speculation that the purpose of the Watergate break-in and bugging...
...rate of inflation." The rate, which in the year ending last June was as high as 26%, has dropped over the six months ending Feb. 29 to the less ruinous annual rate of 13.3%. This has largely resulted from the Wilson government's imposition last July of a limit on wage hikes of ?6 (then worth $ 13.20, or about 10% of the average wage...
Disc-devotees are allowed to move the frisbee up and down the field only by passing; players must stop running as soon as they catch the disc and throw within a 15-second time limit...
...question the merits of the restriction, wondering privately how the committee arrived at the figure five. The press secretary to a prominent Southern senator asked recently, "If I inadvertently write down six references on a page, does that make the newsletter a piece of campaign literature? Does a limit of five make a newsletter any less political?" The limit of five references per page holds, "no matter how deserving or stylistically appropriate," according to the text of the rule...