Word: limits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...long should a thesis be? That depends largely on the writer, and the department. The English and American Literature Department says its theses should be between 10,000 and 15,000 words (about 40-60 pages); for Philosophy, no more than 18,000 words; for Government, the limit is 35,000 words, and other departments have different limits, or no limits...
West Berlin officials have tried to limit the numbers of Gastarbeiter living in these squalid sections, but the Turks find it almost impossible to move. Explained a young Turkish woman in Neukolhi...
...most likely to accept a recommendation that only half the price of a business meal may be treated as a legitimate expense and thus deducted from a company's pretax income. And that is the least drastic of three alternatives he is considering. Another is to set a limit on deductions of $15 a person per meal...
Similar pleas from restaurateurs and unions defeated a harsher plan by John F. Kennedy in 1961 to put a $4 to $7 limit on the deductibility of business meals. The greatest irony of the expense-account imbroglio is that the people likely to be most hurt by a crackdown are not high-living executives but modestly paid waiters and kitchen help...
...Irish Artist Armstrong ended a losing seven-year struggle with the Dublin tax authorities; it seems that he kept artistically inaccurate records of his brush-and-easel expenses. Now spared the drudgery of bookkeeping, Bachelor Armstrong, 53, ambles through an unhurried life of painting ("There is a limit to the amount you can produce to satisfy yourself) and making the rounds in Dublin. "You can get to know everybody here," says he. "In London, there's too much territory to cover...