Word: limiters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...trip to East Asia, where they are expected to urge Japan to buy more U.S.-made autos to reduce the trade deficit. But more radical measures are brewing in Congress. House majority leader Richard Gephardt and Michigan Senator Donald Riegle Jr. introduced a bill last week to limit U.S. sales of Japanese cars and trucks to 2.5 million, a cut of more than one-third from current levels. A few days later Japan suffered another blow when the Commerce Department indicated it would impose penalty duties on minivans sold in the U.S. by Toyota, Mazda and other Japanese automakers after...
...Cuomo unsuccessfully advised Michael Dukakis to break with the 30 Democratic U.S. Senators (most of them strong supporters of Israel) who had urged Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir to negotiate with the Palestinians. In June 1990 Cuomo praised Shamir for "correctly refusing to offer any guarantees that would limit the settlement" of Soviet Jews "anywhere in Israel." Last month Cuomo derided President Bush's Middle East maneuvers, saying, "I don't believe you should be evenhanded between the people who share your values and have been your staunch allies -- always, without exception -- and people who have not." One can only hope...
...migrating to California to take advantage of the state's higher welfare payments. In an interview with TIME last month, Wilson talked about the tough choices ahead: "What we are going to have to do, I think, is make an internal decision to be less generous . . . There is a limit to what we can absorb." Despite Wilson's fears, statistics indicate that only 6% of California AFDC families have lived in the state less than 12 months...
...approach to the facility, along a twisting, narrow stretch of County Route 601, past Heart Trouble Lane, a flashing yellow warning light and a 10- m.p.h. speed limit provide the first hint that something unusual is around the bend. The compound is surrounded by a 10-ft.-high chain-link fence topped with six strands of barbed wire. Armed guards patrol the perimeter. Anyone straying past the entrance is temporarily relieved of cameras, asked to stay in the car and then shown the way out. Motorists who take an inordinate interest in the site are shadowed by security cars...
Mary Gaylord, the director of studies in Spanish for the Romance Languages and Literature Department, said the next dean must specifically find ways to increase stipends and limit the amount of classes graduate students must teach...