Word: limits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Lord Widgery, who disposed of it fairly quickly--throwing out Wilson's case and ordering his government to pay the costs. Since Britain has an "unwritten constitution" with no Bill of Rights, this decision creates an important precedent protecting the rights of the British press. Widgery, though, tried to limit the repercussions of his decision, stating that he might well suppress the second part of Crossman's diaries, which deal with events considerably closer to the present day than the excerpts at issue in the trial...
...Eight miles over the speed limit," declared the police officer, but Paul VanderMaat was incredulous. No matter what the radar said, he had been driving no faster than 25 m.p.h. in Los Alamos, N. Mex. Home he went to consult some books, and a few weeks later he ex plained to Judge Raymond E. Hunter that he had been nabbed about ten minutes before a thunderstorm, just when the oncoming electricity creates ionized particles in the air that can throw radar out of kilter. Case dismissed...
...further sales to the Soviets would not be lifted. But when the deal was announced many farmers angrily branded it unjustified Government interference in world grain markets. They objected to the requirement that the Soviets negotiate before buying more than 8 million tons a year, contending that the limit would prevent them from recouping sales lost during the moratorium...
...Watergate's ostensible heroes: former Attorney General Elliot Richardson, now U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain. The document concedes that Richardson acted conscientiously in resigning rather than bowing to Nixon's orders to fire Cox. But until then, the report claims, Richardson continually urged Cox to limit his investigation and to stop pushing so hard for evidence...
...precautions, and last year a union representing 700 typographical workers softened their opposition to automation, allowed the company to begin regular use of photographic composition equipment, and agreed to end some featherbedding practices. As for the pressmen, who were not a party to the agreement, the Post wanted to limit the overtime system that enabled some workmen to double their $15,000 base salaries; the pressmen resisted, their contract expired, and they walked...