Word: limits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Most of the social progress in our country has been initiated by our President, and those who would limit his power may well regret it when they have a President with whom they agree. You must think of powers you'd give a President you agree with...
...free-enterprise system mixed with government control. Moreover, in place of the heady economic expansion of the past quarter-century, they must now cope with the counterfeit of growth?inflation. Even those who do not accept the gloomy prophecies of the Club of Rome realize that at least some limits to growth must be expected. The feeling of having reached a frontier, a limit of possibility, brings on grave anxieties and confronts politicians with an issue that they sidestepped for years: if there is no longer an ever-expanding pie, how are the portions to be parceled...
...already turned production back to the private two-acre farms rather than trying to limit opium growing to state-run agricultural enterprises, where control is easier. It has also granted amnesty to hundreds of convicted opium smugglers. All this adds up to a triumph for Turkish pride and nationalism-and Turkey's deadly white flower...
...setting this age limit (ruling out anyone who has reached 46 by the date that this issue first appears on the newsstands), we had to exclude, often by a narrow margin, some remarkable figures. Treasury Secretary William Simon missed by eight months, and Adwoman Mary Wells Lawrence by 44 days. As it turned out, the difficult part was not finding 200 people who met our criterion of leadership but confining the list to that number...
There would undoubtedly have been more businessmen had our age limit been higher. André Malraux, that archetypal homme engage, once noted that America's "sense of civism" was among its most striking features, especially in the private sector. Yet at 45 most financial and industrial whiz kids are still preoccupied with climbing corporate ladders, and their deepest involvement...