Word: limits
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Paul said yesterday he plans to gradually limit the number of medical school applicants interviewed to those whose application files require further personal information or recommendations. He added the goal of the admissions office is to "keep the number manageable to the manpower we have and to bring the interview to the applicant." Over 1000 applicants were interviewed last year, most of them two or three times...
...basic housing unit should be the single-family townhouse, a feature that would limit population density to 35 families per acre and relieve the tensions that are generated by overcrowding. To assure variety of design, the development would be subdivided into as many as 30 construction sites, with separate architects and contractors for each...
...become a net exporter of rice. There is food available, but so much is reserved for export that the standard meal has become fish gruel and banana leaves. Even that is served in communal dining halls, which helps accomplish two government aims: to break up family life and limit opportunities to hoard food, which is needed for escape. Family names are being wiped out in the new order. Cambodians are now referred to by their controllers and the government simply by surname, with the term met (comrade) in front. Comrades are expected to do what they are told. The alternative...
...many as 88 no-brand products ranging from flour to laundry detergent. To keep prices at rock bottom, Jewel and Star will spend nothing on advertising or promoting the no-brand goods. They also use the simplest packaging (no cellophane windows or four-color lithographs on boxes) and limit variety and size (generally the packages are fairly large...
...picture is scarcely more sanguine in motorized America. Certainly gas thrift has not been a preoccupation of motorists-most of whom appear to view speed-limit signs as mere memorials to the official 55-m.p.h. limit. Many firms and organizations have launched car pools, but these frequently fail to get solid or even sustaining public support. In short, voluntary conservation so far has flopped in the two places where people waste most energy-buildings and vehicles...