Word: limiters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...other things, the law and our lawsuit-happy society. When Ned discovers that his wife tried to kill someone trying to kill him, Ned the detective arrests her, and then Ned the lawyer defends her. Reiner then takes "Court TV'"s commercialization of justice to its absurd, perhaps plausible limit: law as a spectator-sport, with commentators, whistle-blowers and half-times...
...chance to help define the city's future. In some ways, the issues at hand are old ones--what to do about the current policy of rent control and how best to balance the development of businesses against the needs of residential neighborhoods. But the city, approaching the limit of the property taxes it can collect under state law, is also about to face new economic challenges. The city council will have to consider carefully its spending priorities, and must seek to maximize the efficiency of existing programs...
...Cage's failure was occasioned by his own audacity and the intractability of human nature. Confucius, who analyzed and annotated the I Ching more than two millenniums ago, summed it up in the book's appendix: "Change has an absolute limit." Cage's fate was that, by chance, he found...
...potshots. One of Giuliani's ads seeks to portray the mayor as weak and ineffectual by reciting a list of civic disturbances during Dinkins' term, including a 1991 melee between blacks and Jews. Meanwhile, the Dinkins campaign has ridiculed the Republican challenger's proposal to set a 90-day limit on stays in homeless shelters, calling it an example of Giuliani's coldness and lack of compassion. At least three scheduled debates have been canceled because the candidates couldn't agree on the rules. The attacks prompted New York Newsday last week to portray the two candidates in swaddling clothes...
...also says she supports having councillors represent districts, and she would voluntary limit her service on the council to two terms...