Word: limits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...always assumed that people have a right to use as much electric power as they wish? A partial solution to the problem of energy supply: limit the amount of electricity an individual is allowed to use. He would be free to use his allotted supply of electricity as he wishes; instead of using his electric shave-cream warmer in the morning, he might use 15 additional minutes of light to read at night, or he could watch a ball game on TV instead of using electric edge trimmers to cut a few blades of grass growing over the edge...
...major ecologists, said that modern farmers are putting more energy into the soil (in the form of mechanization, fertilizers and pesticides) than they are taking out in the form of bumper crops. By 1987, Dubos predicted, such practices will cause enough pollution and depletion of resources to limit further growth. He offered the odd analogy of the medieval church builders in France, who decided to end their rivalry after the highest cathedral, in Beauvais, twice collapsed. "Every technology has its limits," said Dubos...
...donors. Randy Beck, 22, a student and former football player at the University of California at Los Angeles, says: "I've willed my body to science because after I'm done with it I won't have any use for it. There is no excuse to limit the usefulness of my body to my lifetime." Some also decide in favor of dissection as a reaction to the expense and emotional upheaval of traditional burial rites. "My mother's funeral was more like a circus than a day of reflection on death," says Mrs. Joyce Winslow...
...quality of schooling now available only to the upper 20%-which is what is meant by talk of "equal educational opportunity" -might cost three times as much, almost one-quarter of the gross national product. "We now spend 8% and there are many signs that this is about the limit of what people are willing to pay," Holt writes. "Yet this has in no way cut down the demand for schooling, which every day becomes more insistent. We have in short created about $250 billion worth or so of the most urgent demand for a product of which...
Although the charismatic Thomson did not receive tenure, he will stay at Harvard as curator of the Nieman Fellows program. Like most administrative posts, the appointment of curator is "without limit of time." The appointment extends indefinitely but can be terminated any time at the pleasure of the President. Such an appointment lacks the security of a tenured position. As one Faculty member observed wryly. "To get thrown out, a tenured professor really has to rape little girls. Lots of them. One wouldn't be enough." Presumably, for an administrator, one would be enough...