Word: limiters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With that, attention suddenly turned to the trio of holdouts whose decision would determine the fate of the bill. One voted in favor of it. Another against. And then Douglas Applegate, an Ohio Democrat who had exceeded the 15- minute time limit for electronic voting, paced up to the House clerk and filled out a ballot by hand. It was colored green, signifying "Yes." The measure had passed...
...last October, believe that the U.S. lacks the guts for a sustained occupation. "It'd be just like Somalia," says a senior Haitian officer. "Clinton will run away when the first U.S. soldier is returned in a body bag." A military intervention, however, need not be open-ended. To limit the commitment, Clinton could embrace Canada's proposal to train expatriate Haitians to serve as the core of a force designed to protect the returned, legitimate government. Together with the estimated two-thirds of the current Haitian army the U.S. thinks would shift their allegiance to Aristide (about...
...Hillary Rodham Clinton's health-care task force, several members urged that the group look not only at what the Federal Government should do to control costs and extend health coverage to the uninsured but also at what it should stop doing. Their most notable suggestion: Washington might limit the tax exemption for employer-purchased health insurance, which costs the Treasury $74 billion a year and mainly works to subsidize generous health plans for the best-paid Americans. The exemption, they argued, fuels overspending on health care and helps drive the cost of insurance beyond the reach of many...
...what rock 'n' roll is." When he made his pitch, Rubin was persuasive. "He immediately made me understand and believe that he really wanted to get the best out of me as an artist," says Cash. "There would be no clock in the studio; there would be no limit on the budget for recording or promotion. And that sounded good. I hadn't heard that since...
...There is an upper limit somewhere," Smithsays. "It's the judgment of the management."CrimsonAlex B. Livingston...