Word: limitate
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...University policy about continuing people in non-tenured positions is that the college limit is three years," McCarthy said. Adelson and Perlman both received two-year extensions to their contracts, but were told last year that they would not be allowed to continue beyond a fifth year...
...Faculty has voted to limit the terms of these kinds of appointments for a number of reasons. The most important of which is to avoid the creation of a semi-permanent class of non-tenured faculty who have no opportunity for promotion or advancement," Knowles wrote in response to the concentrators' letters...
...light of concerns about liability, thegraduate board decided to limit club access toguests to a handful of annual events and specialparties...
...anti-gun forces took some energy from public outrage over the shootings. California's assembly approved a bill designed to limit handgun sales. The gun lobby in Colorado had been expecting to get passage of three bills (to loosen restrictions on concealed-weapons permits, to ban local lawsuits against manufacturers and to pre-empt local ordinances on firearms). State legislators quickly withdrew two of them, and Governor Bill Owens promised to veto the third. Earlier in April, Missouri voters defeated a referendum to lift a constitutional ban on concealed weapons. So far this year, New Mexico, Kansas and Nebraska have...
...time and communication can resolve dicey situations. At first Kim Felder, a California family recruiter for adoptions with one biological child, encountered what she perceived as resistance from her parents to her intention to adopt transracially. She and her husband Carl decided to go ahead with the adoption and limit contact with Kim's parents. The following day, her parents explained that they were reacting to the prejudice they had faced as Italian immigrants--an experience they didn't want for their daughter. "They weren't prejudiced--they wanted to protect us," says Felder. "Now they're our biggest supporters...