Word: limits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...toughest fight for the amendment lies ahead. It must be ratified by 38 state legislatures within seven years, a time limit set by Congress. Democratic supporters did not take issue with Republican Opponent Jesse Helms, who claimed that the ratification struggle over the District amendment would make the Equal Rights Amendment battle "look like a Cakewalk...
...Paul Brodeur said that Soviet scientists found during studies in the 1950s that workers exposed to microwave radiation were complaining of headaches, eye pain, weariness, memory loss, and a host of other ailments. As a result, while bombarding the U.S. embassy with higher levels, the Soviets set a microwave limit for their own people of no more than ten microwatts per sq. cm, a thousand times less than the U.S. standard...
...Gloucestershire estate where Anne lives with Husband Mark Phillips. The resulting portraits of the Phillipses and their son Peter so pleased Anne that she picked 20 poses for her official 28th-birthday portraits. Lord Snowdon does not believe in having a readily identifiable technique, because, he says, "that would limit me to a recognizable style." Recognizable subjects, however, are obviously desirable...
...many would scrap to stay in the race. Final offers from runners-up Ballantine and Pocket Books were both $2.5 million, only $50,000 short of N.A.L. That seems a relatively small gap, but it is a chasm to the bidder already hundreds of thousands of dollars over his limit. In such cases, terms of the sale tip the balance...
...legal redress if anyone or anything imposes upon them and interferes with their ability to enjoy life," says Chicago Lawyer Philip Corboy, whose firm is prosecuting the case against Sears. This "I'm entitled" spirit is spreading so that it is time to wonder: Is there any limit at all to the world's liability for an individual's risk? Can there be a really risk-free society...