Word: limits
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...particular document signed and sealed with such pomp was the most notable in a series of agreements that the President brings back from the Soviet Union this week: the long-expected undertaking to limit nuclear weapons, not an end to the costly arms race but still a sign of hope and good sense. Other, lesser agreements had come with similar ceremony almost every day. It had all been stage-managed carefully and the accords had been worked on for months or even years. Theoretically, they could have been revealed to the world without the Kremlin spectacular...
TAXES. McGovern has backed off an earlier proposal that inheritance taxes be increased to 100% when the amount passes $500,000; he now places the limit for the few in that position at 77%. Otherwise, McGovern would still boost corporate income taxes by $17 billion -a jump of about 40%-by repealing the investment tax credits, tightening depreciation rules and closing other loopholes. McGovern's income tax proposals for individuals making more than $50,000 are confusing and contradictory. In his Wall Street Journal ad, he said, "I am here suggesting a tax which will not exceed 52.5% even...
...Muster. The crowning irony is that Ford's engines might well have passed muster if the tests had been properly performed. As far as emissions go, the engines differ very little from those in current models. The only new federal requirement is installation of a device designed to limit oxides-of-nitro-gen emissions to 3 gm. per mi. or less. The same system is already required on cars sold in California, though the emissions limit there is 3.2 gm. per mi., and Ford's 1972 engines met that standard -indicating that at worst the engines...
...MIDDLE EAST. On this issue, the two sides will probably do nothing more than agree to disagree. Neither wants a war there, but the Russians will certainly shrug off a U.S. request to limit arms aid to the Arabs to purely defensive weapons. Conversely, the U.S. will not abandon its support to Israel. Both sides agree that Israel should pull back from all occupied territories, but the Soviets want an imposed settlement, which the U.S. rejects...
...corpulent Frenchman steps on the scales, clocking 220 Ibs. "Pardon, M'sieur," says the clerk. "You cannot travel today. Even without your baggage you would put the Concorde over its weight limit...