Word: limits
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...foreign governments "reach a decision that they want to limit population growth at a certain point and come to us for assistance," said he, "we should give it to them." The editors cheered the birth-control statement. Then, after an hour of Nixon's informal tour among the issues, they sent him on with a burst of applause...
...President's decision underscored his conviction that, by judiciously selecting its first-string weapons and eliminating those of secondary strategic importance, the U.S. can build an adequate deterrent force within the $41 billion defense budget. Last week's speedup in offensive weapons stays within that limit. The money for it, and an extra $99 million to boot, will come from scrubbing two non-missile nuclear subs-designed mostly for antisubmarine warfare-and by slashing into programs for the BOMARC anti-bomber missile and its SAGE electronics net (TIME, April...
...best (he helped design the turbines for a giant hydroelectric plant on the Volga). He brings an engineering mind to the chessboard: steeped in the classical traditions and theories of chess, he sizes up his opponent, selects his form of attack and, pondering each move to the limit of allowed time, develops it with ruthless precision...
...limit enrollment in what is bound to be an extremely popular major is a sound step for the first, experimental year. A new discipline like Social Studies, which at least appears less rigorous than conventional departments, tends to attract a certain number of dilettantes whose only goal is an easy, diffuse major. If Social Studies is to remain an Honors field—and a worthwhile one—the number of concentrators must be limited...
...limit of fifteen for each of the next five years seems an unrealistic and inflexible policy. No one, not even the architects of the program, knows exactly what course the new discipline will take and what the optimum number of concentrators will prove to be. Social Studies should remain a small field, but a little flexibility would be desirable—and despite the Faculty vote, there is some indication that the fifteen-man limit will be neither inviolable nor of long duration...