Word: limits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Before the leaders get to sign the declaration, they will have to endure an ordeal by rhetoric. Each leader will deliver a 20-minute speech (the time limit, like the declaration, is not enforceable), and each will listen to as many of the other speeches as he can bear...
...balance, the Soviets probably came out ahead, though they paid for what they gained. The U.S. managed to "limit the damage," in the words of one negotiator, but failed to get the Russians to make concessions in the MBFR talks in Vienna. The Ford Administration is still hopeful, however, that its proposal to remove a "significant" number of tactical nuclear weapons from Europe in return for the withdrawal of a 60,000-man Soviet tank army will provide the basis for movement...
...your belt against a common, identifiable and hated enemy. It was easy to portray Hitler as a hated enemy. Inflation is much more difficult to identify and personalize. The British people made great sacrifices, pretty uniformly spread during the war, but they were never asked to accept a pay limit in the sense that we are now asking them to accept it. The British trade union movement has never before made such an offer in peacetime or war. I am heartened by the tremendous response...
...barely able to cope with Italy's postwar economic miracle. As southern migrants rushed to Turin's factory jobs, the city grew by half a million people in the years between 1951 and 1971. This explosion stretched the city's facilities and services to the limit, dissolved neighborhoods, mottled the city's appearance with cheaply built, unimposing buildings and mutilated any sense of community...
...this apparent trust-fund busting were not enough to sway Congress, Ford explained that his proposal would also limit the Federal Government's role in road building to areas of clear national concern like the interstate system. General highway building, he said, is a "classic example of a federal program that has expanded over the years into areas of state and local responsibility." The suggestion was that states and cities would gain new control over every aspect of road building, from financing to construction...