Word: limits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lost on Peking's leaders, who are well aware that the average worker must wait years just to buy a bicycle and that according to reliable Chinese sources, some 200 million peasants remain in a state of "semistarvation." A recent ruling by Peking authorities reportedly put a limit of $4,000 on the value of foreign "donations." Last month the official People's Daily harshly attacked self-indulgent cadres who have illicitly built "new super-luxuriant homes" and who "practice waste and extravagance and eat and drink their fill under all sorts of pretexts at the state...
Some townspeople cite the controversy surrounding a proposed "overlay zone" to limit the height of buildings in Harvard Square as the best example of their grievance with the University. The petition won six out of nine votes, enough for passage of a zoning change under normal circumstances. But the circumstances weren't normal--antiquated state law allows the owner of 20 per cent of the property in an affected area to file an objection demanding a seventh vote in the city council. Harvard exercised its option, a seventh vote was nowhere to be found, and the overlay failed...
...agreed the University had been the fall guy in the controversy. "The overlay really aimed at private interests, and Harvard was just a target," Crane said. "Even after the vote, we offered to plan with the city. They told us it was a moot point, that the height limit was in force,' Michael F. Brewer, assistant vice president for government and community affairs, says. Other city councillors dismissed a University claim that it had been unwarned about the overlay. I'd been meeting with them for three months," Preusser said. "They wouldn't specify their complaints--I just think they...
...industry itself is split on the legislation. The bill puts a limit of $50,000 in total direct payments to any grower, and that is welcomed by small farmers such as Idaho sugar-beet growers but bitterly opposed by plantation-scale growers in Hawaii and Louisiana. Another of the bill's clauses raises the minimum wage for field hands from $3 to $3.30 an hour, and Democratic Senator Russell Long of Louisiana argues that the provision would require an even higher level of price supports for growers. With that in mind, Idaho Democratic Senator Frank Church is pushing...
...lobster can barely move without bumping into one. Farther offshore, foreign fishermen have been using more sophisticated dredges to scoop up lobsters. In all too many cases, young females are removed before they have had a chance to reproduce; often they are taken under the typical state legal limit of 3 3/16 in. from eye socket to the beginning of the tail, a restraint that may still be too lax, according to scientists. The result: a dwindling lobster catch even in such once fertile waters as those off Maine...