Word: limiters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...criticized the U.S. government for its attempts to limit welfare for illegitimate children, the Clinton administration for being ineffective and consumerism for having "a devastating effect on children's souls...
Blank does not limit himself to art cars. He has made two films. His first was a risque college project at the University of California at Santa Cruz. It was called "In the Land of the Owl Turds: In Search of True Love" and featured him in a bathtub, his naked body painted green...
...keep their swimsuits from riding up. Miss Vermont eats bananas to steady her nerves. Rebecca Gray, Miss Indiana, confides, "I have really fine hair, so I fill in my hairline with dark eye shadow." Even these beauty tips can't help them compete forever. There is an age limit, a kind of Menudo Line, of 25 for contestants. Elizabeth McIntyre, Miss West Virginia, is 24, and when she won her state title, she says, she felt "relieved. I was aging out this year." It's a phrase often used by the senior Misses...
...plan is, if the two infiltrators are about to be captured at sea or on the beach, they will fire a parachute flare to signal their comrades on La Rebaude. There is no flare. The lights of a French patrol boat appear to the north, at the 12-mile limit. It motors to within 300 yds. of La Rebaude, showing its presence. Then it falls away...
...more dangerous hurricanes. But the warming, if it's real, is still too small to have much effect. That doesn't mean it won't happen in the future, though. Hurricanes might not be more frequent in a hotter world, but they could be more intense. The upper limit on wind velocities should increase, M.I.T. atmospheric scientist Kerry Eman uel calculates, perhaps as much as 40 m.p.h. over their current top speed of about 180. And while major urban centers won't be battered by winds at the top of the range any more than they are today, there would...