Word: limitations
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...course, those reviewers and columnists may be principal agents--osnovny--or merely trusted persons--doveryonnoe listo. In either case, with their help, the help of the American liberal establishment and of frivolous laws like those which limit CIA powers, the Russkies are on their way to world domination...
...didn't give up; when some tenants moved out--citing the insecurity that accompanied living in a building slated for conversion--GSD officials installed office equipment. For the remaining units, they went to the rent board again, this time seeking removal permits under a new city ordinance designed to limit property conversion...
...movies subtly encourage our xenophobia: the vampire film, for example, where the mysterious foreigner brings pestilence and death. (And preys on Our Women. It's funny how the American male, when he is not thinking about raping a female, is aggressively protecting her honor.) There seems to be no limit to the number of twisted, reactionary themes that a horror movie can comfortably accommodate...
...couldn't agree more with the report on environmental quality, particularly its prediction of wide-scale troubles unless conservation measures are promptly taken seriously. Looking to November, I find it hard to believe that one major political party has denounced the 55-m.p.h. limit, and the other party has been working at a snail's pace on conservation policy. Still, a snail is better than a backward elephant...
...early 19th century, industry was seen as the inmate's ticket to moral redemption, and wardens were judged by their bottom lines. By 1828 Sing Sing claimed to be economically self-sufficient by virtue of stonecutting, blacksmithing and other activities. Private companies, however, sought to limit the competition from so much cheap labor. During the Depression, Congress came to the companies' aid by severely curtailing the right to sell prison-made goods across state lines. Work programs began to shut down. Many of those legal barriers remain, but prison industries are making a comeback for both sociological...