Word: limits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...handbook of inflation: across-the-board salary increases, including a 37% hike in the minimum wage to $520 a month, and increases in pensions and other social benefits. Marchais spent an hour with Giscard, pleading, he said, on behalf of "millions of workers who have reached the limit of their endurance." Afterward, the Communist leader declared: "I am convinced that the [center-right] majority will not solve the country's problems better tomorrow than it did yesterday." Translation: Giscard need not expect any warm cohabitation with the Communists in the foreseeable future...
...should be the major focus of the proposed commission. "Is the MBM case an isolated instance of corruption, or is it part of a routine pattern?" he asked the committee. Johnston answered his question by saying, "We propose that the commission conduct a comprehensive examination of the system; to limit the scope of the investigation to the MBM contract alone would not resolve the doubts and suspicions about the extent of corruption within the entire building system...
...ethical questions raised by developments in science, politics, and social issues in the past few years emphasize the rapidly increasing importance of responsible professionals. Was Karen Quinlan's doctor right to prolong her life? Should administrators employ affirmative action? How should scientists decide where to limit cloning? In response to questions like these, Harvard, and many other colleges are developing "applied ethics" courses. Enrollment in such courses has increased dramatically in recent years...
This argument clearly failed to convince the subcommittee's five senators in 1973 that the corporation behaved properly in Washington or in Santiago during the 1970 presidential elections in Chile. Yet because so little hard evidence turned up during those hearings, the subcommittee had to limit its harshest pronouncement, charging that "the highest officials of ITT sought to engage the CIA in a plan covertly to manipulate the outcome of the Chilean presidential election." Since the Senate subcommittee issued its report on ITT in June 1973, a steadily accumulating mass of evidence has reduced most of the ITT officials' testimony...
...limit. Insurance companies will not let him risk his million-dollar neck by piloting his DC-3. Travolta, grounded for the foreseeable future, consoles himself with fantasies of flight. "Gee," he remarked in the Los Angeles County Museum as he surveyed a vault among the treasures of King Tut, "wouldn't it be great if they opened up one of those tombs and found an airplane inside?" From the time he was small and watched commercials for Mars candy ("They were the best?they'd fly you right through the Milky Way"); from the times he got Sam Travolta...