Word: limits
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CAMPAIGN FINANCE. Nixon would limit individual contributions to $15,000 for a presidential election and $3,000 for a congressional election. Because the limits apply separately to primaries, runoffs and general elections, a person could give up to $30,000 to a presidential candidate and $9,000 to a congressional candidate. The President would prohibit cash contributions of more than $50 and any loans or gifts of stock to candidates, and would permit candidates to have only one political committee each, to prevent them from using dummy committees to conceal the size and source of donations...
...more. That would about cut in half the "shortfall" of 2.2 million bbl. a day now projected for the second and third quarters-even if there were no restraints on demand. In fact, high prices and the continuation of such conservation measures as the 55-m.p.h. highway speed limit probably would hold down demand too, perhaps shrinking the shortfall to a mere...
...other chief candidate for secretary of state, Newton state representative Paul H. Guzzi, has consistently supported campaign reforms. He was sponsor for a bill to limit contributions and chairman of a subcommittee that drafted a state campaign disclosure...
NCAA rules limit the national tourney to teams with varsity status. Despite the prominence of Harvard water poloists in New England, promotion from "club" to "varsity" status here "is not a likely prospect," Jonckheer said...
...five hole ahead. Then he belted the ball off the tee with all the power of Jack Nicklaus-but none of the accuracy. Far, far away, the ball hit the roof of a private home. After half a dozen more errant drives, course officials set a limit of twelve strokes per hole and charitably awarded Harris a mere triple bogey for his ordeal. "This isn't my game," he muttered...