Word: limits
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...proposed limit of "no more than three" such signs per mile would be a legal restriction, not an expansion as implied in your story. There is no statutory restriction whatever in existing...
...mile. But the present law gives the Department of Transportation the power to regulate, and the department permits not more than three signs for a scenic or historical attraction or a natural wonder within a 75-mile radius, and a maximum of one sign per mile. Thus the proposed "limit" of three per mile is an expansion. The bill throws the door open to a tremendous billboard proliferation by enlarging the present "informational" category...
...some couples, two seems to be the ideal number. Timothy and Kathryn Ligosky of Oakland, Calif., have two youngsters, Jason, 6, and Joslyn, 5, and do not plan to have any more; Tim, 31, has had a vasectomy. They feel that more children would severely limit the freedom they have already used to give up their jobs in the Detroit area and move to California to pursue artistic careers. James and DeAnn Burrows of Cambridge, Mass., have a nine-month-old daughter, Monica, and are not sure they will have any more. The reason: both enjoy their jobs and such...
...merit. Organizers find the concept, which often ignores experience and time considerations, elitist and ugly enough, but it is the system in practice that especially disturbs them. Although a worker earns yearly wage-hikes for any work above a "marginal" level, as that worker approaches the upper salary limit of the employment "grade," the possible increments in pay decrease drastically. Organizers maintain that Harvard can hold down salaries by refusing to promote workers who have attained the limit of their grades...
...pregnancy with the approval of a physician. The majority opinion in the latter case held that this right obtains even where a husband objects. "In both cases a great deal of authority is given to the mother," Chayet added. A national commission is now considering resolutions that would limit the authority a woman has to permit research on her fetus, but its findings would ostensibly have no effect on the case of the four Boston doctors...