Word: limits
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Hardest hit have been states that in the past have been stingiest in dispensing relief payments. Texas, which last year raised its constitutional limit on welfare spending, experienced a 67% rise in the number of recipients last year; Indiana's welfare rolls grew 53%. New York, on the other hand, experienced a relatively small 12.4% increase in the same period, since its welfare program has long been one of the more generous...
...sides agreed on a retirement plan that is bound to be enviedand eventually copiedby organized labor everywhere. Starting next year, a worker with at least 30 years of service can take his $500-a-month pension at age 58; the following year the age limit will drop to 56. New negotiations will open in 1973, and the U.A.W. has a good chance to get an even lower age limit. Thus this year's contract may turn out to be a historic one, leading to a substantial reduction in the retirement age for working Americans...
HELSINKI: As the third round of the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks resumed in Finland's capital, the Russians probed a U.S. proposal under which both sides would limit their strategic-weapons systems. They are understood to have countered with a proposal of their own, but the details remained secret...
...basis for earlier U.N. and U.S. peace efforts. But the resolution said nothing about maintaining a standstill in the Canal Zone, leaving Egypt free to improve its network of Soviet-built (and in some cases Soviet-manned) missiles. It also left Israel free to build up its defenses without limit...
Jerome S. Kagan, professor of Developmental Psychology, has joined an attempt to limit the level of violence on television through legal action...