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Word: limits (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...legal to drive 65. Neither are the improved road conditions and wider lanes on most interstate highways. I'm sure it's quite safe to drive 70 on I-95, perhaps even more so than 55. But even though Congress has said it's okay to raise the speed limit by 10 miles per hour, state governments should keep everybody driving...

Author: By John Rosenthal, | Title: Just Say No to 65 | 5/2/1987 | See Source »

...reason for this highway heresy is simple: people don't obey the law anyway. Polls show that about 50 percent of the people in most states don't obey the speed limit. The other 50 percent--like those people who say they don't masturbate--are probably lying...

Author: By John Rosenthal, | Title: Just Say No to 65 | 5/2/1987 | See Source »

Taxed to the Limit...

Author: By John C. Yoo, | Title: University Lobbying Efforts Criticized | 4/30/1987 | See Source »

...abolish the local government. Within hours after the city's only polling place closed, revelers had torn down the green-and-white Crystal Beach highway signs along Texas Route 87 and taunted lame-duck local police officers, who could no longer enforce the town's 45-m.p.h. speed limit. "Crystal Beach is history," exulted Marina Operator Arnold Charpiot, 79, a leader of the antigovernment uprising. "We have thrown out the city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The City That Isn't: A Texas town dissolves | 4/27/1987 | See Source »

Precise federal sentencing standards will limit judges but worsen prison crowding. -- CIA Protester Amy Carter goes free...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page | 4/27/1987 | See Source »

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