Word: limitation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...celebrated Bakke and DeFunis cases, arguing that the U.S. Supreme Court must not permit racial quotas, a stand that blacks fear could prohibit the setting of specific goals and timetables for minority hiring or admissions. Jews have bitter memories of the days when such quotas were used to limit their numbers in fields where they are now relatively numerous, such as medicine, law and teaching...
...while the calliope tooted God Bless America, Carter preached a new energy ethic, in simplistic terms. Saving energy, he insisted over and over, is "exciting" and "enjoyable," not "inconvenient" or "painful." In folksy, fervent lectures, he urged people to insulate their houses, drive less, observe the 55-m.p.h. speed limit, join car pools...
...almost four times the caseload of those in The Bronx, but dispose of cases five times as fast. Why the difference? Because some judges take an active role in pushing a case along from the moment it is filed. They enforce strict deadlines on filing motions and papers and limit pretrial discovery; in short they stop lawyers from delaying. In other courts, judges sit back and let lawyers set the pace by handing out postponements freely...
...much land that last year it created its own real estate company. Harvard's behavior as a landlord, however, has not been particularly exemplary. The University tried to use its rights as a large real estate holder (in the Square over 20 per cent) to block a proposal to limit the height of buildings in Harvard Square. The city filed a lawsuit challenging Harvard's move...