Word: limits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...experiences of a would-be American dope smuggler in the hellish prisons of a Middle Eastern country and his eventual escape make up the plot of Alan Parker's shattering new film, Midnight Express, but to so limit the description of the movie is something akin to samming up Citizen Kane as the filmic biography of a newspaper magnate. Like all extraordinary movies based on real people or actual events, Midnight Express has boldly transcended the limits of its true-life story to bring forth a larger-than-life refinement. The five-year incarceration of Billy Hayes becomes an inspiring...
...level of nitrogen dioxide in Boston's air already rises above 200 micrograms per cubic meter several days each year. Lashman said Harvard promised earlier this year to operate the plant so that the level would not exceed 400 micrograms. He added he thought that was a safe limit...
Stanley V. Dawson, assistant professor of Environmental Health Engineering at SPH, testified that the plant's expected emissions of the pollutant nitrogen dioxide are twice what the upper limit should...
Barbara Mishkin, the former staff director of the commission on human subjects, said yesterday she was disappointed with some aspects of the proposals, particularly the lack of an age limit after which the experiments would need the child's consent. "Children should be given the opportunity to consent as a matter of simple justice," she said...
Curran said researchers experimented on institutionalized mentally retarded children in order to develop a polio vaccine, and that the new rules would limit such practices...