Word: restriction
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Continent, a movement to restrict capital punishment to serious crimes had been under way for decades, largely under the influence of the Italian reformer Cesare Beccaria, who argued that harsh punishments had a brutalizing effect upon society and thus bred crime instead of deterring it. But to the rulers of England, it seemed that capital punishment, even for offenses now considered petty, was necessary for the preservation of law and order. Cried Lord Ellenborough, Chief Justice of England, speaking in the House of Lords in 1810 against a bill to abolish the death penalty for shoplifting: "I am certain depredations...
...have a new solution to the population explosion which will not restrict the birth rate. Why not have our scientists work on shrinking people to-say-one-hundredth ther present size? In this manner our world and all its natural resources will proportionately expand a hundredfold...
Hawaiian sugar growers have long been in an uncomfortably tight box. Their per-acre yields make them the most efficient producers in the world, but their high labor costs and long sea haul to market restrict them to selling in the high-priced, protected U.S. market. There, growth possibilities are virtually nil owing to 1) the public's fondness for dieting, 2) Government quotas on sales by foreign and domestic sugar producers...