Word: limits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Could we not limit quotas to the single group or groups that have been the objects of official, governmental discrimination? This seems like one possible way of limiting the evils of quotas, but is it really? Blacks are clearly one group that have suffered most from official governmental discrimination. But even they include immigrant blacks who have not suffered from our governmental discrimination. American Indians are perhaps the best candidates. They are after all the only group for whom we still have a legal racial definition. Orientals are considered a good candidate, for they too have suffered official governmental discrimination...
...success. It follows that widespread or lasting support of the strike by undergraduates is unlikely; the Union steering committee, meeting last Thursday night, came to about the same conclusion. They scheduled an open meeting of the Union for this Thursday night, since four days seemed to be the outward limit for undergraduate support...
Linda Thurston, a member of Female Liberation, one of the sponsoring groups, said that the cutbacks will limit services for working mothers, women on welfare, retarded children, and the elderly, blind and disabled...
...first thing I noticed as I drove through was a beautiful dark green Corvette Stingray, its engine making characteristic low rumbling noise, cruising effortlessly at 20 mph. (I found, much to my annoyance, that the speed limit was 25!) Then I passed an orange Vette, a bright yellow Vette, another and another. I thought something was dangerously amiss, but I soon discovered that there were 160 (count'em) Corvettes on campus, more than you or I have probably seen in an entire lifetime of playing the old car identification game which, in my case, drove both my parents absolutely crazy...
...effect, those switches speak the "yes-no" binary language of computer technology. Their simple answers can be combined to solve intricate problems. But fast as such combinations can be made, computer speed is often not fast enough. The big machines strain to their limit to handle the demands of space travel; they are also too slow to process in time the vast amount of meteorological data necessary to make the detailed and accurate five-day weather forecasts the U.S. Weather Service would like to achieve...