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Word: limiters (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rationale to curtail traditional welfare programs, such as Aid to Families with Dependent Children and food stamps, and to impose a lifetime limit on the amount of aid received, was compelling: the old system didn't work. It was unfair, destroyed incentive, perpetuated dependence and distorted the economy. An 18-month TIME investigation has found that the same indictment, almost to the word, applies to corporate welfare. In some ways, it represents pork-barrel legislation of the worst order. The difference, of course, is that instead of rewarding the poor, it rewards the powerful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporate Welfare: Corporate Welfare | 11/9/1998 | See Source »

...Thursday night at Kyle's House, and some ghostly creep with a blue face and wild white hair has come between a clan v.p. and a cute blond. The PuNK pOsSe group is hanging out on South Park Avenue; the No Limit guys are at Cartman's House. A naked Def Squad girl cruises Avatar Ranch. An anonymous admirer makes flowers bloom at the feet of Pink Glove in Wendy's Backyard. Oh, and the Mona Lisa head in the blinking, multicolored Apple baseball cap who's floating from room to room taking this all in? That would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Web's Next Wave of Fun | 11/9/1998 | See Source »

...Craig works extremely hard and is a great player," Storey says. "He will definitely play professional hockey one day. The sky's the limit when you know how to work hard, and Craig definitely knows how to work...

Author: By Cathy Tran, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Adams Takes Over Captaincy After Shoulder Rehabilitation | 11/5/1998 | See Source »

...Unfortunately, when you limit the amount offunds you take in, you have a limited amount ofthings you can do in the last few days," he said."It's not the kind of effort that we really neededto have...

Author: By Stephanie K. Clifford, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Bay State Readies Ballot Boxes | 11/3/1998 | See Source »

...himself, Rob Reiner, is fronting for a California proposition that would tack a 50 cent-per-pack increase onto the price of cigarettes. Smoke of another kind -- medical marijuana -- gets a look in five states and the District of Columbia (no, Marion Barry is not behind this), while abortion-limiting proposals come before the voters in two more states. In Hawaii, voters are being asked to decide the fate of same-sex marriages. Our favorite resolution? In four states today, voters are voting on whether to limit the number of initiatives that can make it into the voting booth. Just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation Shows Initiative | 11/3/1998 | See Source »

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