Word: limiters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...post-modernist theory states that thematerialistic, rationalistic, scientific idealogyof Western culture has reached its limit and isnow causing a rapid cultural collapse...
...vote. Lawmakers rejected one amendment that would have capped the loser's obligation at 25 percent of the winner's legal costs, and another proposal to award attorney fees to the defendant only in cases ruled to be "frivolous." Two additional legal reform bills that would limit damage payments and make it harder for plaintiffs to win securities fraud cases remain on the House agenda for this week...
...same forces that had pushed the failed prohibition into effect were still at work. They forced the establishment of blue laws and high drinking ages in many states (including Massachusetts), all designed to limit the spread of alcohol, mostly due to concerns about dissolute behavior. More recently, the national government has re-established alcohol policy along these lines supported by the forces of conservative moralism in coalition with liberal do-gooders (Mothers Against Drunk Driving, for example...
True, of course, but 120 borders on the unnatural. It is at the uppermost limit of what biologists believe is the maximum human life-span. Calment, says Harvard geriatrician Dr. Thomas Perls, "is the Michael Jordan of aging," genetically blessed with extraordinary physical gifts that favor survival. "The chances of you or me getting to be her age are similar to our chances of playing basketball like Jordan." Only one other person is known to have lived as long: Shigechiyo Izumi of Japan, who died in 1986 at 120 years...
...statute declared unconstitutional, and makers of other products such as alcoholic beverages have expressed concern that the law could be used against them as well. But last week, in a move that should help soothe such corporate fears, the House Judiciary Committee passed a measure that would severely limit punitive damage awards. The measure, which is part of the g.o.p.'s "Contract with America," must still pass the full House and Senate, and would not apply retroactively to Florida's antitobacco efforts...