Word: limiters
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...think we will get an agreement," Clinton said. He would also set a two- year limit, but emphasizes costlier job-training bills...
Jaksha's attitude, however, was anything but fringe. He was supporting the ballot proposition to limit the terms of congressional officeholders, a measure that rolled to victory Nov. 8 in Nebraska and six other states: Alaska, Colorado, Idaho, Maine, Massachusetts and Nevada. Only voters in Utah, which earlier had adopted limits, turned down a proposed addition to their restrictions. The past election brings to 22 the number of states that have imposed term limits on members of Congress since 1990. "It would be pointless to mount an opposition," said Ernie Chambers, a 24-year veteran in the Nebraska state senate...
Opponents of term limits argue that Americans have always had the power to turn incumbents out of office -- by voting. It's not that simple, says Cleta Deatherage Mitchell, the general counsel for the Term Limits Legal Institute and co-counsel in Bryant v. Hill. "Incumbents have such enormous advantages that it makes the whole notion of competitive elections a mockery," she says. "It almost takes a national temper tantrum to dislodge incumbents." Meanwhile, Rotunda points to the existence of one federal-term limit -- the two terms of the President. "The nation has survived, indeed flourished," he adds. Furthermore, there...
...improvement in the sad economic shape of the Gaza Strip would help limit the appeal of Hamas -- which is why Palestinian officials, backed by the U.S. and Israel, will lobby international donors this week in Brussels to give the Palestinian Authority significant funding. Foreign aid is especially important now, since, as Khaled Abdul-Shafi, a Gaza economist, notes, "what happened last Friday reduces the chances of private investment to zero...
...most vigorous debates centered on the age cutoff, which was finally set at 40. Some staff members argued that the limit should be even higher, at age 50. People are living longer, they pointed out, and women who have children often don't come into their own until after their offspring become self-sufficient. "Finally, we decided to err on the side of youth," Seaman says. "To some extent, it was an arbitrary choice. But we wanted people who would be making a difference well into the next century...