Word: limits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...scattered boos as Rather identified himself, Nixon asked pointedly: "Are you running for something?" Rather replied firmly: "No, sir, Mr. President, are you?" But how, Rather asked, could the House perform its constitutional duties if the President, the person under investigation in the impeachment inquiry, was "allowed to limit its access to potential evidence"? Nixon answered circuitously. He contended that the House investigators were not abiding by the Constitution's grounds for impeachment: "Treason, bribery or other high crimes or misdemeanors." He added: "I am suggesting that the House follow the Constitution...
...major focus of Hanoi's alleged campaign to "force the American congress to limit economic aid" is the widely held charge that Thieu is holding 200,000 civilian political prisoners and is engaging in systematic mental and physical torture. The thrust of the strategy is to create the impression that "if you're against evil, torture and repression, as most Americans are, then we don't want to give aid to a regime like this," Martin said. He claims that the Hanoi campaign has engaged already the enthusiasm of American peace groups, some journalists, and some aides on Captial Hill...
...bill would give the President broad powers to control the way Americans use energy. Instead of merely requesting that businesses reduce outdoor advertising and ornamental lighting, for example, the President could order them to do so. Presumably, he would also get the power to set national highway speed limits and to limit supplies of fuel to commercial airlines. If the nation's energy supplies continue to be pinched, the President would invoke such measures long before resorting to rationing-and not only for philosophical reasons. A careful study of the contingency rationing system announced in mid-January, which supposedly...
Roger D. Revelle, Saltonstall Professor of Population Policy, said last night that the most critical limit to growth in the foreseeable future will not be consumption of non-renewable resources, but rather the use of renewable resources such as air and water...
...often looks upon his deanship as a burden, and accordingly, has put a three-year limit, ending in June 1975, on his tenure in office. Of his Adams House mastership, he tells friends: "I can't bring myself to look upon this as home." His family feels more comfortable in their summer home in New Hampshire, where his two young children don't have to reckon with the dirt and commotion of the city...