Word: limiters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...some experts doubt that plans to limit the tax deductibility of stock options and other types of compensation to $1 million will really curb executive pay. For one thing, corporate officers who have cashed in their options can always go back to their boards to seek new incentives designed to get around the higher taxes. Says compensation specialist Graef Crystal: "What these tax policies will prove, if enacted, is that the answers to excessive corporate compensation lie outside Washington. It will not be until the shareholders begin to demand accountability that executive pay will come into line with reality...
...better chance of retaining some control of his body than he would have if the accident had occurred two or three years ago. Within hours of his injury, the football player received two new treatments -- one of them not yet approved in the U.S. -- that could help limit the damage. Although the drugs cannot cure paralysis, they may conserve enough nerve function to make the difference between confinement to a wheelchair and being able to walk with braces and crutches...
...operation. He described the suffering in Somalia as a shocking tragedy and argued that outside troops were necessary; only the U.S. could provide them. He also made it clear that the U.S. would not tolerate any opposition; indeed, the Security Council resolution suspended the rules that usually limit U.N. peacekeepers from shooting first. The Pentagon was not certain what kind of reception to expect from Somali gunmen, armed mostly with $ rifles and mortars, but spokesman Pete Williams said the U.S. was "not looking to go in with guns blazing...
...time limit Bush is imposing and the seemingly low risks blunted criticism of the operation, though there was some congressional grumbling about the lack of consultation. One key Congressman, John Murtha of Pennsylvania, who heads the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense, was firmly against the move. He saw "no overriding American national interests" in Somalia and thought the intervention would drain the armed forces of funds for personnel and training...
...committee report, submitted to Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57 earlier this month, recommends that the net loss per house per year be limited to three percent of the house's population, a decrease from the six percent limit allowed the previous year...