Word: limits
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...obviously hoped to start a dialogue on the subject. Judge Scalia agreed on the problem but not on the solution: "What a strange notion that the problem of excessive libel awards should be solved by permitting, in political debate, intentional destruction of reputation--rather than by placing a legislative limit upon the amount of libel recovery...
Lamont normally carries one copy of a reading for every 10 students in a course up to a limit...
UNFORTUNATELY, there is a limit to how much can be done to stem the tide of increasing pollution. A worldwide consensus on the problem is unlikely given that the risks of a climate change differ from nation to nation. Unilateral action seems even more unlikely given the industrial nations economic dependency on the polluting industries. An Environmental Protection. Agency report released in October this concluded." It is extremely unlikely that any substantial actions to reduce carbon dioxide emissions would of would be taken unilaterally...
Whatever the motives and intentions of the Administration, it would be supremely foolish to reject any Soviet overtures to limit Star Wars development, as at least some in the Pentagon desire. The problem is that the Administration's contention that space-based defense offers a better avenue to deterrence than mutual assured destruction ignores the scientific consensus that a fool-proof missile defense would be impossible to achieve and prohibitively expensive. Proceeding indiscriminately with Star Wars development only offers the hope of a budget-draining resumption of the arms race in outer space, because, as the history of the nuclear...
...next week's meeting between Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz. Whatever debate may have gone on in Moscow through much of 1984 about the wisdom of resuming arms-control talks with the U.S., the Kremlin seems determined to make every effort to limit President Reagan's so- called Star Wars plan. The selection of a defense-establishment functionary like Sokolov for the top military job seemed designed to ensure the continuity of that policy...