Word: limits
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President Carter's voluntary wage and price guidelines, outlined last week, may limit Harvard to a $400 tuition increase for the 1979-80 school year. But officials around the University yesterday expressed uncertainty about exactly what effects the federal program might have on Harvard...
...boom has brought record prosperity to Andorrans, but it has also attracted an unwelcome influx of foreigners eager to cash in. Many native Andorrans feel that their identity is threatened by the 16,000 Spanish and 2,000 French residents of the principality. Attempts to strictly limit immigration and discourage foreign speculators have failed. A law prohibiting Andorrans from selling their land to outsiders has been circumvented by socalled préte-noms (name lenders), who lease their surnames to foreigners for use in property sales...
...electronics revolution has certain drawbacks. Crammed with thousands of individual circuits and components, this computer-on-a-chip is only about a quarter the size of a thumbnail. Yet despite the minuscule dimensions of these circuits, the time required for electric current to traverse them places a limit on how speedily the little computer can make its calculations...
...wizards at Bell Telephone Laboratories in Murray Hill, N.J., who launched the microelectronic age with the invention of the transistor 31 years ago, have broken that speed limit. Bell scientists have developed a way of at least doubling the velocity at which electrons race through tiny chips. Their feat could point the way to a whole new generation jf "smart," computer-run devices in the lome as well as in industry...
...guidelines as an attack on the symptoms rather than the causes of inflation. Shearon Harris, chairman of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, sent Carter a six-page letter sarcastically suggesting that the Administration apply guidelines not to wages and prices but to its own actions, "such as a 7% limit on the increase in federal taxes, a 5¾% [ceiling on the] increase in overall federal spending and a freeze on net new regulations." William Proxmire, chairman of the Senate banking committee, said last week that guidelines may have "some value" but "there is one answer and one answer only...