Word: limits
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There are short-term solutions. A state can discard a primary as easily as it sets one up; candidates could come to some agreement to limit the amount of campaigning they do. With the partial exception of Canada, the U.S. is the only Western country that opens party nominations to mass participation. The problem is how far to carry it and how to control it. Says Donald Matthew of the Brookings Institution, who is studying the President-making process: "We Americans frequently assume that the way we do things is the natural way and that everyone else is nuts...
...final battle centered on a series of crippling provisos put forth by Democrat Sam Ervin of North Carolina. Ervin feared that women would suffer hardships and dangers if the amendment passed. He tried to limit its scope to allow existing protective legislation to stand after passage. Ervin raised the specter of women "sent into combat, where they will be slaughtered or maimed by the bayonets, the bombs, the bullets, the hand grenades, the mines, the napalm, the poison gas and the shells of the enemy." Illinois' Adlai Stevenson III replied: "What we are doing is enunciating a principle...
...raise and soft-coal miners a 15% increase. But the West Coast dock workers were cut down, and the first-year settlement in the ailing aerospace industry was clipped from 12% to 8%. The unionists had their own way in many policy matters, such as lifting the limit on catch-up settlements...
...shops stretch the spirit of Common Market tax laws, and the Eurocrats are of a mind to act-either by barring the shops to passengers traveling between Market countries, or by imposing a limit (perhaps $150) on duty-free purchases. But no one needs to fear a quick disappearance of $3.50 per quart Cutty Sark Scotch (at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport) or Gauloises at $1.75 a carton (at Paris' Orly). Market officials will not act at all before the end of 1973, if then...
Dean C. Jackson Grayson's Price Commission lowered the average yearly increase allowed large firms under its Term Limit Pricing rule from 2% to 1.8%. Grayson also properly chastised Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz, who had praised the present high meat prices before a cattlemen's group a few days earlier. Butz's speech was "damaging to the stabilization program," bristled Grayson. "Everyone must work to hold prices down, not push prices up as Secretary Butz is advocating...