Word: limits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ounce by how much will fit into a plastic sandwich bag, a traditional dope-sellers' measure. Many marijuana users are taking no chances. "Head shops" report brisk sales 'of the pocket scales ($1.50 retail) to users who want to weigh in just below the one-ounce limit...
...Divorce and abortion laws recently have been liberalized, as have been property rights, which until recently sharply discriminated against women. Many of the changes are more apparent than real. Career women are largely a Paris phenomenon; in the provinces, the laws have changed much faster than the customs that limit many women to home and minor jobs...
...many of his domestic and foreign policies. In the end he was forced to accept clumsy compromises: an energy bill that would reduce oil prices in the short run and allow them to rise in the long run, a tax bill in which Congress gave a nonbinding promise to limit spending. In many respects, Ford's record was better than his critics allowed. But none of his conservative moves seemed to appease his party's truculent right wing, and its candidate, Ronald Reagan, passed him in the polls...
...Rules. The spirit of reform also swept through the Senate, where liberal Democrats and Republicans curbed the filibuster. Under the new rules, the Senate can limit debate if 60 of its 100 members vote aye. In the past, two-thirds of all those present and voting had to assent to cloture. Last year no major legislation was talked to death on the floor. Nor did the reformers stop with these important changes. Both the Senate and the House voted to open key committee and conference meetings-heretofore held in private-to press and public...
...President has recently taken measures-often draconian-to limit the possibility of disorder after his death or disablement. He has put down even the faintest signs of an outbreak of traditional hostility between Serbs, Croats and other Yugoslav nationalities. In a series of new laws that are expected to go into effect this month, he has sharply restricted religious activity, especially that of the Roman Catholic Church, on the ground that it is backing illicit "nationalism." Thousands of government officials have been purged as suspected troublemakers. In an attempt to ensure an orderly succession, Tito has decreed that his powers...