Word: limits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...February; included was a request to spend $97.9 billion for defense. Under the old system, Congress would have increased some items and reduced others. But this year, using its new approach, Congress developed its own budget, which included a ceiling on defense. It had the effect of setting a limit about $7 billion lower than the Pentagon wanted. Still, there was doubt that the ceiling would hold when the Pentagon's old and influential friends began pushing for the higher figure...
SAFETIES. Tim Fox, Ohio State, 6 ft., 186 lbs.; and Kurt Knoff, Kansas, 6 ft. 3 in., 200 lbs. With "exceptional range, good hands, and great ball sense," Fox is the cornerstone of a secondary that helped the Ohio State defense limit opponents to 7.2 points per game. Knoff, despite a knee injury, is valuable to the pros because "he likes...
...Stern Limit. Although distillers claim that they are merely responding to a change in consumer preference, they also assert, paradoxically, that most drinkers cannot tell the difference in taste between 86-proof and 80-proof whisky anyway. Consumer resistance to the change, they say, is small. Still, some brands have not joined the trend. Schenley Industries, for example, is running ads pointing out that its Ancient Age bourbon is still, at 86 proof, as strong as ever. Also, there is a stern limit to the watering-down trend: 80 proof is the lowest the Federal Government will let a distiller...
...squad was hindered by a twelve-man roster limit, which forced most of the wrestlers to persevere through three grueling bouts or incur a forfeit...
...those who become consolidated...limit their horizon so as not to see what might destroy their newly-won unity with time and space or expose them to the fear of death--and of killing. Such a consolidation along technological lines is, I submit, now taking place. [in it]...the technologically possible may replace the ethically permissible....and this can only cause subliminal panic, especially where the old decencies will prove inadequate, and where the mere possibility of overkill can be denied only with a mental strain which will match the sexual repression of the passing era in unconscious pathogenic power...