Word: limiters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...city has approached the legal tax levy limit and can count on only an additional $5.5 million as tax revenue. This makes additional spending, however desirable, financially difficult...
...ignores the Senate's rules: Because 60 votes are necessary to end debate on a bill, the 43 Republican Senators can filibuster and defeat any Democratic legislation they strongly oppose. The demise of Clinton's $16 million economic stimulus bill last week was a politically painful reminder of this limit to the president's power...
...summary sought to downplay the radiological significance of the spill. It said that if the total amount of radioactivity that dripped from the cart were ingested by one worker, it would only be half the annual limit on intake established by federal regulations...
While governor, Brown said, he pushed through legislation that re-authorized a commission that could limit development on coastal lands even though the state legislature was "bought and paid for by developers...
...call to Wasinger late that night, threatening him personally with "retaliation" if Wasinger and AALARM pursued his case with the administration. This, apparently, is the kind of "non-violent, non-affrontive [sic] debate" that Oppenheimer and his fellows on the BGLSA are interested in--the frantic effort to limit the free speech of others by vandalism or intimidation...