Word: limits
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...political pressure if they wanted to keep their jobs or get more money. Carter said SES membership would be voluntary; if its members were not happy in their posts, they could return to their old categories with full legal protection. Besides, the new program would impose a 10% limit on political appointees in the federal bureaucracy...
...province of John Reed, who remains a lively and comical performer, despite the excessive doffing and donning of pince-nez. The nightmare number is the greatest of all the G. &. S. patter songs; and Reed, in the encore, increases the headlong tempo beyond what one would think the limit of possibility. At the end of the evening, however, I see no excuse for Reed's electing to change the single word that resolves the plot from Gilbert's doesn't to the ungrammatical...
There are two compelling reasons why volunteer work is, as California Governor Jerry Brown has said, "a necessity for a civilized society." First, as is becoming increasingly clear, there is and ought to be a finite limit to the ser vices that government can provide. California's Proposition 13 has proved that taxpayers are willing to cut services even cruelly and self-destructively to reduce their tax loads. If many necessary services are to be provided, volunteers must do the work-particularly in child care centers, nursing homes, libraries and alcohol abuse programs. One of the most persuasive practical...
...industrial workers have barely managed to stay ahead of the spiraling prices; rural workers are now worse off in terms of purchasing power than they were before the 1974 revolution. Nor are economic matters expected to improve soon. This year, to meet IMF austerity guidelines, Portugal was expected to limit economic growth to 3% vs. last year's 7%. Meanwhile, a ballooning bureaucracy and costly nationalizations of industry have forced Soares to impose stiff tax increases...
...Treasury officials, while not opposing the European initiative in principle, have important reservations. One concern, which the U.S, shares with Britain and Italy, is that an economic group dominated by the West Germans would end up with conservative fiscal and monetary policies that would severely limit economic growth. Another fear is that the ECU, once established, would invite speculators and governments from Togo to Turkey to dump dollars for the ECU currencies, thus bringing more downward pressure on the dollar. Economist Robert Triffin, a U.S. monetary expert who has long championed a European currency, believes that it would help rather...