Word: constraints
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...think I'm worried about adding another constraint to humanities students," said Robert M. Woollacott, chairman of the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology...
...primarily motivated by a desire to get re-elected, Buchanan assumes. "Their natural proclivity is to spend more and not tax," he says. The result: a "regime of permanent budget deficits." The cure, Buchanan contends, is to change the rules of the game. Says he: "We must impose a constraint on politicians when it comes to spending." Accordingly, he supports a constitutional amendment to require Congress to balance the budget...
There was yet another roadblock to action: despite the documents, top flight officials at Marshall, including Mulloy, believed that the seal had redundancy in the critical early stages of ignition. Dutifully, however, Mulloy slapped a formal launch constraint on the joint problem. That meant that there could be no shuttle flight until the seal was fixed. But few above Mulloy even knew the constraint existed; worse yet, having imposed the restraint, Mulloy routinely waived it before each launch. So the shuttles flew, its astronauts innocently unaware of the lingering joint danger...
...difficulty could happen. Mulloy replied that the closeout had been a mistake, "a failure of the human being within the system." Snapped Rogers: "It was a little more than that. It's a failure of the whole system if one letter and one human being can close out a constraint that has been concerning you for many years." Rogers asked Russell why he had recommended the closure. "Because I was asked to," Russell answered. "Well," commented Rogers with biting sarcasm, "that explains...
...establish an acceptable batting average and to accustom people to your approach: "I'm not ideological. I change my mind a lot, issue to issue. Commentary is a state of mind." It is not, Moyers believes, his views that keep him off the news: "There's never been a constraint editorially on me." Instead he loses out to CBS News...