Word: limits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Having already participated in one scrimmage and three games against non-Division I opponents, Harvard has met the limit set by the national governing board of collegiate atheltics...
...general forum with offensive weapons. If it could not hold Star Wars off the table entirely, Washington had wanted to keep talks on offensive and defensive systems separate. Its hope was to conclude a pact that would sharply reduce the numbers of missiles and warheads without agreeing to any limit on the Star Wars program. But even if the Soviets should agree to deep cuts in offensive weapons, the formula worked out at Geneva gives them a chance to demand that defensive systems also be limited before a single missile is actually dismantled or a single warhead destroyed...
...Soviet demand that British and French nuclear forces be counted in any eventual agreement. It really did not matter much; he is quite certain to do so when actual bargaining resumes. The U.S. is equally sure to stick to its position that American and Soviet intermediate- range missiles be limited to equal numbers of warheads. It will again argue that British and French missiles must be left out of the equation because the U.S.--and Britain and France--believes an INF agreement should limit only the arsenals of the superpowers...
...stay within a budget limit of $9 million to $10 million, the committee is scheduling one-third fewer events this year. Gone are 1981's candlelight dinners and highbrow concerts at the Kennedy Center, and satellite balls across the country. Even the parade following the public swearing-in, with its 57 floats, 43 bands, the U.S. equestrian team and a dogsled, has been cut from the normal 2 1/2 hrs. to 1 hr. 15 min. The method: faster marching...
...conventional telescopes cannot be simply scaled up indefinitely. As the mirrors get bigger, they begin to sag under their own weight. Indeed, for years many astronomers believed that a 200-in. diameter was the practical limit for an optical telescope...