Word: limits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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AMERICA'S LIMITATIONS: There is a limit to the good things we have in this country. We're coming up against those limits. It's really a very salutary exercise to learn to live with them. Everybody looks for politicians to come up with the solutions to the society's problems. It really is a rather totalitarian urge if you analyze it. Maybe the answer is the Ten Commandments...
...simplest level, the problem manifests itself in language. Words are generalizations designed to describe ideal types. Liberal theory assumes that man can know the essence of every object, but words limit the degree to which he can describe a thing; he can never perfectly describe any particular object...
...with a promise to reduce state spending by 10%, cut welfare, curtail the growth of state government and crack down on student protesters. He turned out to be more pragmatic than his rhetoric suggested, in part because he had to compromise with a Democratic legislature. He managed to limit, but not reverse, the growth of state government; he boasts of vetoing 194 items of legislation that would have cost Californians billions of dollars. But many liberals share the view of Dean McHenry, chancellor emeritus of the University of California at Santa Cruz, that "his bark proved worse than his bite...
...anticompetitive rate-making activity by truckers. After a three-year phase-in period, carrier associations could in most cases no longer discuss rates, nor could industry rate bureaus file rates for members. Truckers could raise rates up to 15% a year without ICC intervention; they could cut rates without limit...
...already are 15,000 trucking companies. The ATA snarled: "The trucking industry needs more competition like Custer needed more Indians." The International Brotherhood of Teamsters concurred, sensing that Ford's bill would keep rates and profits of big truckers smaller than they otherwise would be, and thus probably limit pay raises for drivers. At a meeting with Administration officials some weeks ago, Teamster President Frank Fitzsimmons vented these views in a profane tirade against the proposals...