Word: limits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...read the letters [Nov. 26] in response to your editorial, what dismayed me was not some people's unflagging support for Nixon. That was to be expected. What sickened me was their demands that a magazine that dares to attack the President close down. Nowhere does the Constitution limit free speech to politicians and political candidates. Dissent is what freedom of the press is all about. Those who want nothing but a docile, uncomplaining, unquestioning press might just as well live under Communism...
...Simon leans toward a kind of semi-rationing: a system that would allot a certain number of gallons of gas a week to each driver (or car) at taxes no higher than those now in effect but would clamp a heavy "excess-use" tax on purchases above that basic limit. The plan has some advantages over outright rationing. It would assure everyone of a basic gasoline supply while permitting people to choose freely how much they really wanted to drive. It would also produce new Government revenues that could be used to fund mass transit...
There are an unusually large number of issues raised by your editorial of December 4 on "An Inexcusable Surplus" which deserve comment. I will attempt to limit my comments to the most deserving...
...said that if the University decides to limit spring leaves, students opting to take time off would not be guaranteed a room in a House if they return in the following fall, depending on enrollment...
...wells run dry. The Arabs have turned down requests for increased production, and even set production ceilings. Last year, Kuwait turned down a request from Kuwait Oil Co., a jointly owned subsidiary of Gulf and British Petroleum, for a production increase. Instead Kuwait set a 3 million barrel day limit on oil exports...