Word: limits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...candidates in this nonparty election are no less violently opposed on impersonal issues. Bradley wants to limit Los Angeles to a population of 4,000,000 (it now has almost 3,000,000); Yorty opposes sharp restrictions on growth. Bradley favors a moratorium on highway building; Yorty argues for continued building of highways, which he says "really move a lot of automobiles very efficiently." Bradley thinks oil drilling off Los Angeles beaches was started partly by "deceit and deception" and should now be banned; Yorty insists that "we ought to do everything we can to develop...
...keeps playing. (One example of an alibi is the six-cat, in which a mark tries to knock a row of canvas cats off a shelf with a baseball-but fails because a mechanical device keeps the cats in place.) According to Dembroski, "Show owners almost always set a limit on the amount out of which any one mark can be beat." Once that limit (perhaps $10 or $15) has been reached, the agent rewards the mark with a shoddy prize...
Past Presidents, including Kennedy and Johnson, have of course stretched their powers to the limit. But nowhere in U.S. history does there seem to be the systematic breaking of laws by White House officials and the involvement of Government agencies that characterize the Watergate affair. As the Charlotte Observer put it, if the American majority believes that Watergate is "just a somewhat exaggerated version of politics as usual," then "the American political system is deathly ill." Perhaps the most important thing to rescue from the Watergate mess is the public's ability to make distinctions, both moral and legal...
...theory of "creative conflict," believing that change comes only through confrontation. "In any given set of circumstances," he says, "there is always the question of how much displacement, distortion and confusion any one institution can tolerate. But the only way you know you've reached the limit is when the institution ceases to exist." Contrary to the opinion of his many detractors, Dixon insists that there is no danger of that happening to Antioch...
Those sources said that HEW's final action on the hiring plan would come within two weeks, thus apparently laying to rest earlier indications that HEW would not act on the plan before the 45-day limit prescribed...