Word: limitations
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Only one line stands out. As Russell leads a caravan of 250 used cars across the California desert, he realizes that he'll never make his deadline if he sticks to the speed limit. Turning and speaking through a megaphone to the high-school students driving his pack of cars, he prepares the kids for a history lesson. "This is how we used to drive," he yells, "at 75 miles per hour...
...those who complain of lower-back pain are victims of one of three syndromes. The most common of these involves nothing more than overworked muscles. Normally, as the body moves, its muscles contract and relax in quick succession. But if they are strained beyond their limit, they rebel. An overtaxed muscle suddenly goes into a sustained contraction, or spasm. It becomes a hard, knotty mass. The tiny blood vessels that bring it oxygen and nourishment and carry off wastes constrict. Soon some of the cells in the stricken muscle die, and the body sends out a distress signal...
...rout; traditionally, churches and schools have been excused not only from taxes but from zoning as well, allowed to expand, build and demolish where they please. Cambridge, pointing to maps showing the city with more than 50 per cent of its land institutionally-owned, won the right to limit institutional conversion of property two years ago. That privilege came with only one string--Harvard was not to be included. The men who wrote the state's constitution loved the only University in Massachusetts and made special reference to its exalted status in the charter. The state legislature, three centuries later...
...G.O.P. Senators decided that they would try to attach the tax-cutting measure to every major finance bill that came to a vote on Capitol Hill. The very next day, they did just that, proposing an amendment on a bill to raise the federal debt limit. The Democrats had the strength to beat back the tax cutters on a straight party-line vote, 58 to 38, but the prospect of more such votes was an embarrassment. Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd denounced the Republican maneuvering as a "Tinkertoy economic solution" and "a con game with the American people." To head...
Both Houses of Congress have rejected Kemp-Roth, and the measure still bears an aura of eccentricity. In recent months more traditional Republican economists, like former Treasury Secretary George Shultz, have begun winning a greater influence in the Reagan camp. And last week the congressional leaders persuaded Reagan to limit for now his for mal proposal of Kemp-Roth to the first year's 10% cut. "Don't go for the second and third year," argued New York's Barber Conable, ranking Republican on the House Ways and Means Committee. "The press will aggregate it, come...