Word: limited
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Meanwhile, unions continue to hold sway over a critical bloc of leftist politicians who say the singular priority is to limit job cuts to a minimum. At the same time, there is another sideshow: leaders from the North and from Rome are fighting with each other over whether to keep Milan's Malpensa airport as the key international hub for the airline, or return that role to Rome's Fiumicino...
...literally “kicks butts,” Marine said. The event also recognized NASA astronaut Wilson, who spoke in a soft voice about how her unflagging childhood interest in astronomy led her to see the sunrise from space. “The sky is no longer the limit,” she said. “Outer space is the limit to what you can achieve.” —Staff writer Esther I. Yi can be reached at estheryi@fas.harvard.edu...
...visit the candidates in their greenrooms before the debate? First time I see them is when they walk out. I would rather, on debate night, limit the scope of our relationship and conversation to what happens onstage. I think it keeps it fresher and more spontaneous...
...five years as a prisoner of war, where he was tortured so badly that he signed a false confession and later contemplated suicide. "I once thought I was man enough for almost any confrontation. In prison, I discovered I was not," he said. "But when I had reached the limit of my endurance, the men I had the honor of serving with picked me up, set me right, and sent me back into the fight...
...years she refused the medical community's help to master her disease, and later to limit its evolution and pain," Béal notes. "Then, towards the end, she demanded the medical community help her die using the same sort of medicine she'd rejected as treatment...