Word: limiters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tunnel at 12:25 a.m. on Aug. 31. Two off-duty chauffeurs standing near the tunnel entrance heard the roar of the motor as the Mercedes downshifted and accelerated. Directly in front of the speeding vehicle, they said, was a dark-colored sedan moving at normal speed. (The speed limit in the tunnel is 30 m.p.h.) They saw the Mercedes swerve into the left lane in an attempt to pass the car. Once the two vehicles entered the tunnel, these witnesses lost sight of them. But they immediately heard a loud crash followed by the droning of an automobile horn...
...Instead of attaining complete enlightenment gradually, Tibetan monks claimed to do so in a single lifetime, an approach compared by Rick Fields, author of the American Buddhist history How the Swans Came to the Lake, to climbing the sheerest face of a Himalayan cliff: demanding and perilous. Unwilling to limit themselves to the standard tools--chanting and meditative breath-control techniques--the Vajrayana Buddhists employ an eclectic mix that includes religious visualizations, philosophical debate, ritual, yoga and the energies of tantric sex. Buddhism typically took on some of the color of local faiths, but Vajrayana's incorporation of Tibet...
...proposal to switch to a numerical speed limit of some sort will be decided this week; Custer had better odds...
Butte legislator Joe Quilici, one of the sponsors, has all but conceded. And Bob Gibson has editorialized against a new speed limit in the Billings Gazette. "We already have one that says there are times when 35 might be prudent and times when 90 is prudent," he says. What more could a man ask? (At night, the limit is 65.) Governor Marc Racicot, for one, wants a new speed limit, but doesn't expect it to happen anytime soon. Montanans are not nut-case antigovernment types, he says, a tad sensitive about the militia thing that captured so many headlines...
...that requires money. In this country and in this time, to limit the amount of money that a candidate or interest group can spend to communicate is, in no metaphorical sense at all, to restrict its ability to perform this vital task...