Word: limits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rallied the Senate in opposition. Said he: "This is a question of whether poor women should be denied their rights." To which Hyde replied: "It is the unborn children of the middle class and the rich who are discriminated against by this legislation because we have no way to limit their abortions...
...barons of Big Labor convened in Los Angeles last week and confidently put forward their Christmas list. While 3,000 AFL-CIO leaders cheered, President George Meany, 83, declared that the Government should spend billions to create millions of jobs; should refuse to cut taxes on business; and should limit imports. "Free trade," he declared, is "a joke and a myth." But the familiar bravado had a hollow ring, for organized labor is in trouble. Its leadership is out of step with a nation that is increasingly worried about inflation and annoyed over Government controls. Beyond that, labor confronts...
...Cuba has avoided cutbacks in its social and political reform programs. According to Quintero, the country has made significant investments in pollution control and it has a broader and more effective resource conservation program than most developing nations. A population control program also exists with social pressure used to limit most couples to two or three children, Quintero said...
...even the sky is the limit on the real estate deals available through the friendly brokers at the United Planets Commission of Van Nuys, Calif. The firm will sell you your own little acre on the sun, "cosmic fishing grounds on Venus," or the entire Milky Way. The price on every piece of property in the brochure is a flat $4. The buyer receives a "star-deed," printed in gothic script...
There is no apparent limit to the richness of her patterning. The objects are disciplined by a vertical-horizontal grid, or held like parts of a collage in shallow framing boxes; those formal devices, along with the shapes themselves (the jig-sawed edge of a plank recalling the side of a Braque guitar) allude to cubism. But Nevelson's work, although grounded in a cubist syntax, has very different aims. It is addressed, above all, to mystery. Unified by the black paint, the thousands of objects that make up Mrs. N's Palace shed their identity. They...