Word: limits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...three-year red-ink totals that the U.S. has ever experienced outside of the World War II period: an estimated $87 billion for fiscal years 1971 through 1973. The President argues persuasively that the deficits are necessary to spur a lagging economy. Even so, he has felt obliged to limit some programs that his Administration earlier had labeled top priority. For instance, the Labor Department has kept the number of people in its manpower-training programs below 1.3 million, although the persistence of a nearly 6% unemployment rate cries out for a greater effort to help provide the jobless with...
...annual charade. The city would borrow from banks to meet its payroll, then, by prearrangement, would fail to pay when the loan came due. The banks would sue and win a judgment demanding repayment. That would enable the city legally to sell bonds beyond the normal debt limit. Today, 35% of East St. Louis' tax revenue must be used to pay off old borrowings, causing the city to fall ever further short of covering its bills...
...does not advocate euthanasia. "We are not supposed to shorten life," he says. "But there is a limit to what we ought to do to prolong it." The marantologist, he suggests, would not only recognize these limits but help the public do so as well. The result-peace, comfort and relief for the medically hopeless-would benefit both patient and physician. "Marantologists would not always look on death as an enemy, but often as a friend," concludes Poe. "They would have their vision extend beyond life into eternity...
...particularly vulnerable to Rogers' kind of humor. Politicians who parade as national leaders look silly when you notice their common imperfections. Rogers described Calvin Coolidge's stiff-lipped way of talking: "Coolidge is what we call at home a close chewer and a tight spitter." But he did not limit his jokes to personal failings; he also knocked irresponsible government policies and actions. The moral self-righteousness with which we infuse our policies seems absurd against the hard truths of government inefficiency and immorality. Rogers used this contrast as a major source of his biting political humor. He noted...
Most state legislators who favor no-fault back fairly extensively "modified" plans that give accident victims with permanent injuries or with high medical expenses the chance to sue for any amount they think they can get. The lower the limit for "high" expenses, the less savings to consumers in premium reductions. Under an extremely low $100 cutoff system being considered in New Jersey, for example, consumers would pocket only an average of 10% on premiums for bodily injury insurance v. 42.6% in Massachusetts, where the minimum suit possible on wage and medical losses must be for more than...