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Word: restrictions (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...boot camp when one man broke the rules, our chief used to restrict the whole company. . . . In persuading Congress to tighten the on-the-job training law, the Veterans Administration has followed the same line, penalizing the majority in order to weed out offenses committed by a small minority...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 9, 1946 | 9/9/1946 | See Source »

...refusal to consider long-run effects on the nation as a whole. In support of his thesis, the author cites labor's featherbedding, the gouge of "parity prices" for the farmer, consumer insistence on price control, and similar examples of what to him is selfish myopia which can only restrict production...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Bookshelf | 8/23/1946 | See Source »

...various new ceilings as adjusted by O.P.A. officials tend to make the buyer uncertain of any fact except the one that his cost of living is going up. Although increases now appear to have the sanction of law, many student budgets will have become inadequate unless buyers continue to restrict their demands to needed items and minimum quanties...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cost of Living Still on Upgrade | 8/2/1946 | See Source »

...argue that it is right that unions should escape responsibility for the acts of their agents. He does not argue that it is right for unions to violate their contracts. He does not argue that it is right for unions to combine with others to fix prices or restrict competition. This, apparently, would be carrying the matter a little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Veto | 6/17/1946 | See Source »

Perhaps the most cloquent plea of the Faculty majority which last December voted to restrict tutorial to honors candidates and Sophomores of Group IV and above was that this action would in effect strengthen the system. Recognizing the drain and strain placed upon the Faculty by the war, the overwhelming majority of students accepted this decision in good faith...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hot Potato | 4/18/1946 | See Source »

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