Word: limits
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What security does the U.S. have that future aid will not be similarly misappropriated? It would seem wiser to concentrate our efforts towards strengthening our own island bases further east in the Pacific, and to limit our aid to that which is directly controlled...
Many states-including New Hampshire-have a ceiling on death claims. In West Virginia, it is $10,000; in New Hampshire, $15,000; in Connecticut, $20,000. In states without ceilings, death claims of $50,000 or more are sometimes paid. The Warsaw Convention (1929) limits compensation for death in international air flights to $8,300; there is no limit on domestic flight death claims...
...Depths. Transferred to another prison where his execution seemed imminent, Lilje reached new depths of spiritual and physical suffering. But at this stage of utter helplessness he found his sense of God most sure. "At this extreme limit of human life," he writes, "it becomes clear why God is with those who are despised, outcast, tortured, imprisoned, disinherited and solitary...
...Slack. Not so calm, however, were the traders in the nation's futures markets, who saw higher prices ahead. For two straight days on Manhattan's Commodity Exchange, the price of rubber soared the permissible daily limit of 2$ a lb. Though Washington officials denied any plans to speed up buying for the Government stockpile (now only about 40% complete), commodity men did not believe them: up also went the futures prices of grains, copper, lead, tin and zinc. In five days, the Dow-Jones index of all futures prices rose 3.95 points to 150.48, highest close since...
Destination Moon (George Pal; Eagle Lion Classics) proves that, in Hollywood, the sky's no longer the limit. The picture speculates entertainingly in Technicolor on what may happen when man takes his first 240,000-mile flight by rocket to the moon. For a piece of science fiction, it has a surprising amount of respect for scientific fact...