Word: limiters
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...what do we do about it? Reformers like Common Cause call for drastic changes, such as free TV time for candidates who agree to limit their spending and public financing of campaigns. These are good ideas, if you are willing to gut the Bill of Rights and make the First Amendment read, "Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech except in the case of political participation...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Former FDA head David Kessler went to the White House today to press his recommendation the Administration reject the $368.5 billion settlement between Big Tobacco and the state attorneys general because the deal would limit the government's power to regulate nicotine as an addictive drug. A Congressional commission headed by Kessler and former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop, which had indicated its serious misgivings about the settlement two weeks ago, presented Al Gore with its recommendations for making the deal work. Especially upsetting to the Koop-Kessler commission is a provision forbidding a nicotine...
While governments have dithered at a pace that could make drifting continents impatient, people have acted. Birthrates are dropping faster than expected, not because of Rio but because poor people are deciding on their own to limit family size. Another positive development has been a growing environmental consciousness among the poor. From slum dwellers in Karachi, Pakistan, to colonists in Rondonia, Brazil, urban poor and rural peasants alike seem to realize that they pay the biggest price for pollution and deforestation. There is cause for hope as well in the growing recognition among businesspeople that it is not in their...
...Cold War, it is not enough for us to say that Communism has failed. We, too, must heed the lessons of the past, accept responsibility and lead. Because we are entering a century in which there will be many interconnected centers of population, power and wealth, we cannot limit our focus, as Marshall did in his speech to the devastated battleground of a prior war. Our vision must encompass not one, but every continent...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: It took 30 years for anti-smoking activists to strike a deal with big tobacco, but less than a day for people to start picking it apart. Criticism of the landmark settlement -- in which tobacco companies will pay out $368.5 billion over the next 25 years, strictly limit advertising, and agree to FDA regulation -- began even before a group of state attorneys general announced the deal last Friday afternoon. The American Lung Association expressed doubts that the deal would really curtail tobacco's ability to target children, and strongly urged negotiators not to accept...