Word: limits
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1970
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...showing mink furs treated to look like tiger and leopard skins in his fall collection. On the other hand, worried about the country's new environmental awareness, David Klapisch, vice president of Southern Trading Corp. (reptiles), complains that "conservation is good, but there has to be a limit...
Conservationists fear that the limit may have already been passed. Biologist David Ehrenfeld writes in his new book, Biological Conservation: "All species are potential Humpty Dumpty's. The processes of evolution, as we know them, will not put them together again on this planet once they are destroyed." Even now, man may qualify for a niche in the red data book. "There is so much DDT in human fat," says Ehrenfeld, "that if man were edible, he would be banned from the market...
...legislative drive to repeal quotas and subsidies would be in the national interest, though it would no doubt bring shrieks from every special-interest group in the country. At very least, the Nixon Administration could reverse its steps toward further protectionism, such as its campaign to force Japan to limit textile shipments to the U.S. The Government has shaped its anti-inflationary program entirely in terms of limiting demand; increasing the supply of goods and services by breaking some of the bottlenecks in the economy is an alternative that cries out to be explored...
...Augusta, Ga., amid an orgy of burning and looting. Blacks were quick to note that these deaths failed to draw the headlines or rouse the nation's conscience on the scale of the Kent State killings, and most were bitter. One explanation is that there is a limit to a nation's ability to sustain outrage. And in Augusta, the issue was clouded: looters need not be shot, but they are not innocent. But it must also be admitted that somehow violence against blacks, especially in the South, has a familiar ring. There is a reproachful measure...
Since there is a limit to the money that can be wrung from oil, the government is giving increased attention to the transformation of the southwestern province of Khuzestan into a huge agricultural-industrial complex. In addition, great copper deposits are being mined in the Kerman area of central Iran. A dozen major dams are under construction around the country...