Word: limits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...layoffs of city employees. Firings and attrition since January have reduced the city's full-time work force to 263,311, a drop of 32,211, including 7,077 teachers and other school employees. Further cutbacks must be made, but the union leaders will use their muscle to limit the losses...
...after Richard Nixon changed the ABM'S name to Safeguard and scaled down the project to a "thin" shield protecting only a few cities from attack by iCBMs. The issue began to fade after the U.S. and the Soviet Union agreed, in the 1972 accord on strategic arms limitation, to limit themselves to just two ABM installations apiece...
...itself seems about to disappear. After the SALT agreement, the Pentagon began work on a Safeguard site near Grand Forks, N. Dak., but Congress decided that a second installation at Washington, D.C., was not worth the cost. Last year, Nixon and Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev reduced the ABM limit to one site each...
...resources as a state are stretched to the limit...
HOLD DOWN TAXES Aside from borrowing, the city's favorite way of paying its bills has been to raise taxes - as if there were no limit. Yet the more it has increased taxes, the more people and businesses it has driven from the city, thus further eroding the tax base. In addition to an 8% city sales tax, a city income tax is levied on residents and - to a lesser extent - on commuters. A New York family of four earning $15,000 a year pays a city tax of $179 (as well as a state in come...