Word: restrict
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Swiss posters aim to please the man in the street, not just persuade him. Recognizing that posters are a public art form as well as an advertising medium the Swiss limit them to reasonable size (35 by 50 inches), restrict their display to appropriate spots, and require that they be changed every fortnight. In addition, the government encourages poster artists with an annual competition...
Most determined opponents of German rearmament are the French, who originally wanted to restrict German "combat teams" in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization to 5,000 men, bar Germans from heavy artillery or tactical aviation. The German reply was that they would never fight under such conditions; they demanded instead an independent German army serving under NATO of around 250,000 men, with artillery and air units manned by Germans...
...months, patient Federal District Court Judge Harold Medina seemed to be losing patience with the Government's attempt to prove that 17 Wall Street firms had monopolized the investment banking business (TIME, Dec. 11). Said Judge Medina: "I have heard a lot of talk about [an agreement to restrict competition], but I just haven't seen it yet." He complained last week that the U.S. attorneys, who had thumbed through nearly 4,000 documents, were reading only those parts which seemed to show a lack of competition, were skipping the parts which showed that the defendants were "competing...
...passed the first one in 1931 to slam the door on solicitors. Breard's lawyers charged that his arrest violated both freedom of the press and free speech. Last week, by 6-to-3, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled otherwise, affirmed the right of any community to restrict door-to-door selling. Justice Stanley Reed, speaking for the majority, wrote: "Subscriptions may be made by anyone interested in receiving the magazines without the annoyances of house-to-house canvassing...
Second year Business School men will have less choice in courses they may take, John B. Fox, Assistant Dean of the School, announced last night. The effect of the new regulation, which will govern next year's curriculum, will be to restrict the number of general courses open to second year students...