Word: limiters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Each nationally publicized incident generates on average 30 more seriously disruptive crimes," declares Dietz, who would like to see news organizations limit their coverage of tampering. He points out that the initial Pepsi report occurred while Washington was saturated with news accounts of the June 8 sentencing of Joseph Meling, who was convicted of putting cyanide in cold capsules in an attempt to kill his wife; she survived but two others died...
...moderate Republicans joined forces to end a Republican filibuster, the Senate voted 60 to 38 to pass White House legislation to reform campaign spending in House and Senate races. Though Democrats agreed to strip the bill of most provisions for public financing of congressional races, the Senate version would limit contributions by corporate and other political action committees, bar lobbyists from making contributions to lawmakers whom they lobby and establish voluntary ceilings on campaign spending. The House considers a similar bill next month...
...relief worker noted, "This is a political problem that is being treated with a military solution." Fear of bogging down in the country's primitive politics is exactly why first Bush and then Clinton tried to limit the mission to narrow military objectives, insisting that the U.N. take over the hard part of restoring the country as soon as basic security and aid deliveries were in place. Washington refused the job of disarming the warlords. Nor did the U.S. leave behind enough equipment to make sure the peacekeepers could decisively outgun the local thugs. The U.N. and the U.S. tacitly...
...defeat at the hands of another warlord in October and the subsequent occupation of his territory by U.S. troops diminished his influence, making him wary, then openly hostile. As his dreams of a presidency faded, said a relief worker, "Aidid was just itching to push the U.N. to the limit." While he never expected his belligerence to culminate in an international warrant for his arrest, he preferred to fight rather than slip into anonymity...
More than 20 bills have been introduced in the California legislature this year to limit benefits to illegals. Mountjoy explains the strategy: the state cannot stop them from coming, because policing the borders is solely a federal responsibility. So "you have to stop the benefits of coming here: the educational benefits, the health care, the workmen's compensation." None of the bills has yet passed, though one has cleared the state senate. Two were defeated in early votes, but Mountjoy and allies vow to keep trying to push them through...