Word: caps
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...Result: Thursday, the House and Senate pass a budget resolution codifying - in a non-binding, general-principles kind of way - a $1.35 trillion tax cut and a discretionary-spending growth cap at 4.9 percent. Head Senate Democrat Tom Daschle claimed Wednesday that Bush "was dragged kicking and screaming" into the negotiated deal, but the White House's man on the scene, OMB chief Mitch Daniels, may have been closer to the truth...
...given the opportunity to play baseball at Fenway a couple of days later, what else can you do but shrug it off and keep swinging? Lentz did just that yesterday, and knocked a Jesse Santos pitch over the park’s famed Green Monster in left to cap off a five-run rally in the top of the ninth...
Clark's plan proposes the elimination of many of the restrictions on LIPP, such as its salary cap and its stipulation that careers must be law oriented, and proposes to guarantee to each incoming class the availability of LIPP upon their graduation...
...didn't you give Bush enough brains to understand that it is in the best interests of the people of the U.S. to put a limit on the amount of CO2 emitted into the atmosphere? We in Europe also don't want to hurt our economy by putting a cap on greenhouse-gas emissions. We are educated enough, however, to understand that we have to do this now to avoid serious environmental and economic disasters in the future. ERICH WACKER Heilbronn, Germany
...head of the American Trial Lawyers Association in the 1980s forged a decades-long alliance with Nader organizations. Trial lawyers defending victims of corporate negligence have gotten rich from juries educated by three decades of Nader?s consumer crusades. But that relationship has now ended. Bush wants to cap the damages juries can award to plaintiffs, cutting into lawyers' fees?and the lawyers blame Nader. Even though he no longer even sits on their boards, his old organizations are feeling the brunt of the lawyers' anger. Public Citizen, run by Nader proteges, raised $150,000 less than usual in December...