Word: limiters
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THERE IS A LIMIT TO JUST HOW MUCH VIOLENCE even battle-hardened Colombians can take. Since drug kingpin Pablo Escobar escaped from his maximum-security prison in July, security forces have rounded up or killed dozens of his cronies and relatives; in retaliation, traffickers assassinated 29 police officers over the past two weeks alone. Quite apart from the drug wars, leftist rebels, who so far this year have killed more than 1,000 police, soldiers and civilians, set off a series of bomb explosions and terrorist attacks that left 30 dead, then murdered 26 police guards at a remote...
...billion in compensation for 20 years' worth of lost business. That decision set off a new round of negotiations, but at the last minute a proposed settlement was scuttled over a plan to cap annual oilseed production in Europe. The E.C. agreed to reduce the production limit from 12.5 million tons to 11 million tons but refused to accede to American requests to slash it again to 8.5 million tons. It was this standoff that finally drove Hills to take action...
More than 230 state issues ranging from term limits to mandatory health insurance and curbs on gay rights were on Tuesday's ballots. But none was as incendiary as the fire storm of demands for restrictions on the number of terms elected officials can serve. Not since citizen initiatives first | appeared on state ballots in 1898 has an issue so galvanized Americans. Voters in 14 states, from Oregon to Florida, which represent 35% of the American population, overwhelmingly approved proposals to limit Senators to two terms and members of Congress to anywhere from three to six terms. A 15th state...
...parents to be truly given a choice, however, we must not limit their selections to either public or private schools. Some argue that the installation of school choice will undermine people's faith in our public schools system. However, anyone who has recently examined that system knows that now is the time to question that faith...
...least two different kinds of efforts to control health care costs are referred to under the heading of "cost containment" in current health care policy. Plans designed to yield better coordination between providers and insurers (see "managed care" below) with resulting efficiencies, and changes which limit the amount or kind of care which a health plan covers can both be called cost containment...