Word: restricted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...observes. "Sometimes it seems we are willing to prop up any two-bit dictator who can afford the price of a pair of sunglasses." And he adds, using a favorite phrase: "We ought not to do that." He urges massive cuts in defense spending and he wants to restrict the CIA to intelligence gathering...
...city's largely free universities are about to restrict their costly open admissions program, which admits every high school graduate. Now it is probable that students who have less than a C average or who rank in the lower third of their class will have to take a test to show that they have an eighth-grade level in reading and math...
...including its secret police and political arrests. These men represent Franco's family, civil war generals, high state officials, and a host of para-military groups like the Falange and the Guerillas of Christ the King. The bunker deeply distrusts Juan Carlos for his democratic leanings. It hopes to restrict his power when he officially becomes king by forcing him to retain the present Prime Minister, Carlos Arias Navarro, a moderate Francoist whose half-hearted reform measures have easily been curbed before...
...Doty: "We now have a period of relative public confidence that nuclear war is not imminent. We are apt to lose the vision of how absolutely catastrophic nuclear war is." While there is no foolproof solution, the authors variously argue that the U.S. should greatly intensify its disarmament efforts, restrict its sales of nuclear reactors to unstable countries, and do its best to lift up poor societies...
...group of laws which went into effect in the summer of 1974 does much to restrict management's right to hire and fire employees. The employer must give at least one month's notice of dismissal, with older workers entitled to up to six month's notice. Unreasonable dismissals are illegal with the employer bearing the burden of proof when challenged by the unions and the employee retaining his job at full pay pending a court decision. If the employer lays off workers, he must do so according to seniority with employees over 45 receiving double seniority. Employees retain seniority...