Word: limits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have also been seeking a respectability that it feels it will gain by winning America's recognition. But East Germany may discover that respectability could be slow in coming as long as it remains one of Europe's most repressive police states, still finding it necessary to limit the freedom of its 17 million citizens by walls, barbed wire and the presence of 20 Soviet divisions...
...statistics, the NSC has countered with more of its own. Said one spokesman in rejoinder: "Travel on 31 representative turnpikes during the first five months of this year was down 14% from the first five months of 1973, but fatalities were down 60%." The lowered speed limit seemed a likely explanation. What is more, said the NSC, there were 3.4 deaths per 100 million miles driven for the first six months of 1974, down from an average 4.27 for all of 1973. As for the A.M.A. contention that most crashes occur at speeds under 55 m.p.h., sniffed one official...
...Class III, for areas where major industrial developments (again with mandatory pollution controls) will be concentrated and where air pollution will be tolerated up to a national limit set by the federal...
...around $2,800-25% more than at the start of the 1974 model year. Still, GM's action was enough to stop heavy hints from Ford Motors and Chrysler that they might raise prices even more than GM had. Now, both companies will probably limit their increases...
...third group, a fact that may curl the lip of New York magazine's theater critic John Simon, who just squeaked into the fourth and lowest category. Half of the chosen live within what Kadushin calls "lunch distance" of New York -a 50-mile limit he considers convenient for day trips to the city. Wherever they live, these intellectuals are well paid (average income: $35,000 a year). They write most frequently in such magazines as Partisan Review, the New Republic, Commentary, Dissent and the New York Review of Books...