Word: limits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Leverett House, the committee's proposal to limit visitor access of Leverett Towers' two entries to one has already been implemented. Student guards presently admit visitors at F entry...
...songs are like a certain kind of friend--a friend of whom you are genuinely fond--but a friend who is forever wrapped up in her problems, painfully occupied with keeping the pain away. The problems and pains are real, and you do care, but there is a limit to your toleration. Mitchell, increasingly, exceeds that limit...
...snow paralyzed transportation throughout New England last night. Logan Airport was closed yesterday afternoon. The Massachusetts Turnpike speed limit was cut to 30 miles an hour last night, but "you're lucky if you can do five or ten," Alphonse Rheaume, State Police sergeant, said last night...
...competitors. Says Republican Congressman Barber Conable of New York, a collector of Indian tomahawks who sounds as if he would like to swing one at Carter's reform proposals: "The President isn't going to win on either DISC or deferral." The President's proposal to limit deductions for business lunches to 50% of cost stirs little enthusiasm among Congressmen. One counterproposal being discussed by members of the Ways and Means Committee is to put a ceiling -say $25 per person-on the amount that businessmen can deduct for meals. Committee members agree that some tightening...
...position of substantially subsidizing agribusiness: most of the farms in violation of the existing statute are large corporate farms. Irrigation is an energy-intensive and usually very expensive operation. According to the Task Force on the Rules and Regulations to Govern the Application of the 160-acre Limit, the government made an original investment of $1100 per acre to build the irrigation system, which now illegally provides cheap water for the lands in question. The fact that during the past 75 years owners of large landholdings have repeatedly sought to eliminate the restriction is an indication of how much they...