Word: limitted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...estimated $870 billion in equity values. Volume for the week was inconceivably greater than ever before, totaling 2.3 billion shares on the Big Board; the four heaviest trading days in New York exchange history all occurred last week. The turnover strained the exchange's computer network to the limit, and the Big Board decided to knock off trading two hours early on Friday and this Monday and Tuesday to allow exhausted brokers time to catch up on their paperwork...
...relieving the endowment, the pay out limit has placed an unfair burden on students. In 1974 the endowment funded 22 percent of Harvard's expenses, while it only picked up 17.5 percent in 1986. When the endowment pays a smaller share of the budget, tuition has to make up the difference. In 1974 tuition paid for 21 percent of the University's expences and last year it paid 27 percent...
Current trends in the management of information by the federal government merit the attention of all who are concerned with academic discourse and general commerce in ideas. In recent years, federal information policies and practices have tended to limit the availability of certain categories of information to scholars and other members of the public, occasionally restraining private communication and enhancing the likelihood that government officials will exercise unwarranted influence over the content of published information...
Many of the information policies surveyed in this report are undoubtably based on sound management considerations involving fiscal restraint or national security. The cumulative effect of these policy changes, however, is likely to limit the flow of information in our society. The report concludes that in some areas federal information policies have limited public access to the results of publicly funded academic research and other information-gathering activites. In other areas such policies have deprived government officials of the information necessary for making informed decisions about how to carry out their functions and duties. In still other areas policy changes...
National security interests combine with budgetary concerns to further limit the free flow of information. For the last seven years, the Defense Department and the intelligence services have broadened the classification system, expanded the controls on the publication of scientific research, and limited the exchange of knowledge with scholars overseas, the report says...