Word: maximum
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...Hatfield by arguing that "most of our elected officials have been in Washington too long." This tactic dovetails with the widening effort to limit the service of lawmakers at both the state and federal level. Last month Oklahoma voters approved a measure that will restrict state legislators to a maximum of 12 years in office. Californians will have their choice of ballot initiatives next month to do the same thing; public-opinion polls show overwhelming approval. In Colorado a proposed amendment to the state constitution would go even further: it would limit state legislators to eight consecutive years in office...
...contradictory legacy abound: housing projects only half- finished, soccer stadiums and no foreign teams to play in them, empty hotels with antiaircraft batteries on their roofs. The city is at once sinuous and Stalinesque: palm trees and concrete mausoleums with a martial theme. And everywhere the gaze of the maximum leader. Hundreds of billboard-size portraits are painted on buildings, framed in traffic circles, displayed in lobbies: Saddam drawing sword, Saddam on stallion, Saddam in sunglasses, Saddam in camouflage fatigues, Saddam looking like Xavier Cugat in white suit, Saddam slaying the infidels. In the city center is a new statue...
...Harvard students sincerely want a peaceful transition to majority rule in South Africa, we should support American economic involvement only insofar as it provides maximum empowerment and economic benefits to Blacks and minimum economic benefits to the apartheid state...
...interview last week, the conservative councillor said that he believes that the University is applying a "means test" to its non-Harvard tenants, requiring them to be below a certain maximum income. Such a standard has long been one of Walsh's pet plans for reforming the rent control system...
...idea arose of placing our missile units in Cuba. Only a narrow circle of people knew about the plan. We concluded that we could send 42 missiles, each with a warhead of one megaton. We picked targets in the U.S. to inflict the maximum damage. We saw that our weapons could inspire terror. The two nuclear weapons the U.S. used against Japan at the end of the war were toys by comparison...