Word: limits
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...million school-construction bond issue (on the ballot in next month's primary); a measure increasing from $8,000,000 to $10,000,000 the monthly limit for allocating state bond funds to local school districts for classroom construction...
...Khrushchev turned truculent? Best guess was that Khrushchev had concluded that the West was not to be smiled into concessions. When he dropped the time limit on his Berlin proposals and proposed the summit talks, he may have hoped the West would prove willing to yield a point or two. But the solidarity displayed by the West as the summit approached made it evident that the West was not to be bamboozled into damaging concessions just for the sake of easing a crisis that Khrushchev had created in the first place. His soft talk was getting him nowhere, and there...
...Aviation Agency Chief Elwood R. Quesada flew out to a meeting with Lockheed Board Chairman Robert Gross, issued a statement saying that "we are satisfied that we are boring in on an area that is going to be definitive." In the meantime, added Quesada, under the FAA-imposed speed limit of 295 m.p.h.. the Electras in operation have "a margin of structural safety over and above any other aircraft in the commercial field...
...Kubitschek, Novacap raided departmental budgets. Checking the figures, newsmen have found at least $117 million of financing for Brasilia. It absorbed, for example, 95% of all hospital construction funds for 1959. As deficit spending sent the cruzeiro spiraling from 65 to 200 to the dollar, the opposition awoke. "The limit of insanity! A dictatorship in the desert!" cried Rio's Correio da Manhã. "Madness," echoed O Globo. Kubitschek, sensing now a grand cause, replied: "The capital is moving, and anybody who tries to stop it will be lynched by the people...
...several times seemed to sacrifice a piece without apparent advantage. But he also achieved his primarily psychological purpose: that of confusing and spoiling the precise calculations of his opponent. Time and again, unexpected Tal moves forced Botvinnik to hesitate so long that he ran into trouble with his time limit, then rushed into making weak moves. Last weekend, with 13 games left to play, Tal led by 6½ to 4½-And in the ninth game of the match, Botvinnik won only by adopting Tal's tactics: he sacrificed a pawn without apparent reason-and thereby surprised...