Word: caps
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...these banks began taking greater liberties with depositors' money, sinking it into risky real estate ventures and junk bonds in an effort to reap maximum profits. Fearful about the future of the vast amounts of federally-insured money being invested, the Federal Home Loan Bank Board (FHLBB) instituted a cap on the amount of money S&L's were allowed to place in such volatile instruments. An investigation into Lincoln Savings and Loan uncovered flagrant violations of these regulations, exceeding the limit by over $615 million...
...those about the environment. The 2008 Presidential election was supposed to be the first one in which global warming would be the front-and-center issue, but that hasn't been the case. (Though it is worth noting that for the first time, both candidates are on record supporting cap-and-trade legislation for greenhouse gases...
...Republican call to "drill, baby, drill" got louder and more popular, eventually pushing Democrats, including Barack Obama, to publicly support some amount of offshore drilling. The flip-flopping came on the heels of the Senate's defeat of the Warner-Lieberman bill - the first real attempt to pass federal cap-and-trade legislation - thanks in part to fears raised by Republicans that a carbon cap would further increase energy prices. "America's growing dependence on fossil fuels, once viewed as a Democratic trump card...has become a lodestone instead," wrote the green pollsters Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus...
There are five key components to Exelon’s plan: enact mandatory climate legislation in the form of a cap and trade policy very soon, enhance energy efficiency, encourage renewables with tax credits, fund research and development in coal and carbon recapture, and stay true to competitive markets...
...longtime partners, are insisting on cash as quickly as possible, sometimes in as little as 15 days - which strains Mitternight's ability to manage his cash flow. "They're concerned things could go wrong," he says. So is he. Which is why he's decided to keep a tight cap on spending instead of expanding his business. That means $35,000 less juicing of the economy when Mitternight doesn't buy a truck. And it means one fewer job created for an HVAC technician...