Word: limits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Prime Minister wants to carry on with his policy of voluntary wage restraints, under which unions would limit pay-hike demands to no more than 5%. That stand is fiercely opposed by the 11.5 million-member Trades Union Congress, and was violently attacked by Callaghan's own Labor Party Conference at its annual meeting in Blackpool last month. Thatcher is leading a Tory assault on what she has described as "rigid pay policies" and calls instead for "responsible" collective bargaining...
...This is being spread from person to person, and we hope to limit any outbreak within the individual dining halls," he added...
Around the nation yesterday voters endorsed proposals to limit taxes or spending in five states, rejected propositions to extend legal gambling in three states, and favored an ordinance to restrict the legal rights of homosexuals in Florida while opposing a similar ordinance in California...
...remaining 5%, that will require what U.S. diplomats call "end game trade-offs." One major example is the deadly accurate cruise missile, which the U.S. developed to offset ominous Soviet advantages in rocket size and power. Moscow had insisted that SALT II impose a 1,500-mile-range limit on cruises launched from planes; this would keep much of the Soviet Union beyond the weapon's reach. In September, however, the Russians indicated that they would drop this demand if a strict 360-mile ceiling were placed on the range of cruises fired from the ground or ships...
...this. Among the other unresolved issues is something experts call "fractionalization," or the number of warheads each missile can carry. Fearing that Soviet monster rockets like the SS-18, for which the U.S. has no counterpart, could eventually be loaded with dozens of warheads, Washington is pressing for a limit of ten to 14 per missile. For their part, the Soviets want to restrict cruise missiles to 20 per airplane; without limits, a jumbo jet could carry as many as 80. The question of "modernization" of older missiles also remains open...