Word: limiters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Though the class was extremely homogeneous in terms of race, Cohen recalls cases of anti-Semitism. "It wasn't an easy time to get into Ivy League schools in those years. There was some sort of a limit [on Jewish students admitted]," says Cohen...
Teso said the city has already complied with some of the demands by reducing the speed limit in the area to 25 miles per hour, by agreeing to install the signal and by applying to the state for permission to detour truck traffic from the area...
Besides covering more people, the President must decide whether to go along with pleas from the mental-health lobby for "parity" with other medical coverage, which would mean at least an 80% reimbursement of all mental-health treatment. As the Wilberts learned painfully, many insurers now sharply limit access to mental-health care and reimburse only a fraction of the costs, usually a maximum of 50% after high deductibles. Providing such coverage for the severely disabled alone would cost Americans $6.5 billion more a year, according to the National Institute of Mental Health...
Summers, who worked at the World Bank last year, is on his second of two years of leave, and further time off would violate Harvard's strict two-year limit...
...trip back into Manhattan went almost as well. But five stops before ending his adventure, a slight incline sent the train speeding downhill, exceeding a 20-m.p.h. speed limit. Before Keno could slow train, he went through a speeding signal and tripped an emergency brake. The train hissed to a dead stop. All he had to do was get out of the train, get onto the tracks and reset the brake. But Keno was afraid of the dark subway tunnels, the rats and exposed high-voltage lines. For a full 30 minutes he sat panicked as the conductor and Transit...