Word: limiters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...told Carter he would stick to his freeze as long as the U.S. was making "a good-faith effort" to work out a settlement. If last week's letter from Pyongyang contained any more specific time limit, it was not announced. But since the fuel rods are too radioactive to be processed for several weeks anyway, the two sides have a window of opportunity to determine how good the good faith is and to decide whether their resumed diplomacy promises to produce a settlement...
Clinton's defense is that he supports the campaign-finance reform bills stalled in Congress. The legislation would limit contributions from political- action committees and ban soft money, the currently unlimited contributions to political parties used for voter registration and party-boosting activities. But Clinton has been nearly silent on the issue this year, possibly because the Democrats face a major loss of congressional seats in the fall elections. In the meantime, Clinton says he won't "disarm unilaterally" while Republicans and other enemies are still out earning money the old- fashioned way. "There's no contradiction at all," said...
...nation from Greenwich, Connecticut, to Palo Alto, California, environmentalists and their allies are taking aim at the noisy machines that rule the neighborhood from May to October. In Takoma Park, Maryland, for instance, free-lance writer Mike Tidwell founded Citizens Against Lawn Mower Madness, a group seeking to limit use of gas mowers in the town. Says Tidwell: "I'm committed to spreading the gospel of power-mower reform...
...thing? And how can the government be on both sides of that question simultaneously? Why create a job if this just hastens the moment when the Fed will say that's one job too many? Why retrain an unemployed worker if there's some government-imposed limit on total employment anyway? Is every welfare mother who takes a job supposed to take it away from someone else so the total of workers doesn't increase...
...crime prosecutions. Some Nuremberg precedents have been rejected: no defendants will be tried in absentia; nobody will be hanged. All the tribunal can do, says Theo Van Boven, the court's registrar, "is rule that a case exists and issue an international arrest warrant. That would severely limit the movement of such people. They would become pariahs...