Word: limits
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...three. The IMF could monitor national economic activity and recommend when currency values should be increased or decreased and by how much. Last April the IMF set up a "surveillance system" that could perform this function. Though some American officials have opposed such an idea because it would limit national economic independence, the U.S. should strongly support it as a major step toward greater stability in exchange rates...
Most of the opposition will probably come from departments that fear attempts to include more professors in tutorials will limit the scope of their tutorial offerings. Also, professors who have no penchant for teaching undergraduates may criticize the reforms...
Stanley E. Flink, director of public information at Yale, perhaps limits the president's ability to freely discuss his views. Flink, constantly mindful of the time limit, is quick to offer press releases instead of answers. Giamatti begins to deplore the situation in South Africa and says he agrees in principle that universities and banks could demonstrate their feelings by divesting of their investments in American corporations which prop up the white minority government. He adds, however, "everyone has ethical responsibilities, but one wants to balance them. Divestiture is not the best way to bring about change in South Africa...
...martial law is not specifically mentioned in the Constitution. President Washington chose to limit the use of military power when, after dispatching troops to quell the Whisky Rebellion of 1794, he ordered all insurgents to be turned over to civil rather than military courts for trial. But during the Civil War, as he struggled to hold the nation together, President Lincoln introduced preventive detention and military justice for thousands who opposed the war, including hundreds arrested in the bloody Draft Riots in New York City and elsewhere. This amounted to an imposition of martial law. In a landmark judgment, Chief...
...Another limit is imposed by the Nobel committees' own rules, which since 1901 have provided for annual Nobel science prizes in only three fields-physics, chemistry and physiology-medicine; in 1969 a fourth prize was added in economics. In addition, there are prizes for literary accomplishment and for contributions to world peace. Writes Zuckerman: "The prizes cannot go, however great the importance of their contributions, to mathematicians, earth and marine scientists, astronomers, and many kinds of geologists and behavioral scientists." She notes that the rules have been bent a bit-for Radio Astronomers Martin Ryle and Anthony Hewish...