Word: limiters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sources of additional moisture. In the continent's Dry Valleys region, the lake ice seems to be thinning. It actually rained briefly at the American base in McMurdo Sound this year. The Wordie Ice Shelf on the Antarctic peninsula has all but collapsed, signaling a retreat of the northern limit of permanent ice on the continent. And in the 1970s a portion of the sea-ice apron as big as California disappeared for three years...
...Clinton Administration is issuing a stream of thou-shalt-not orders to HMOs that sign up Medicare patients. The latest prohibits quick in-and-out mastectomies. Others forbid HMOs to limit what doctors can tell Medicare patients and restrict their ability to pay bonuses to doctors as a reward for keeping costs down. This regulatory club has power, since HMOs rate signing up Medicare and Medicaid patients as their best prospect for expansion...
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...create a stronger women's community and a stronger Radcliffe, we must not limit ourselves by narrow definitions. To me, a women's community is any group of strong, intelligent, supportive yet independent women coming together over issues of interest to them. And Radcliffe is defined by those who adopt her name. A model for an improved women's community and an empowered Radcliffe exists beneath our very noses: Radcliffe athletics...
...counts. First, the issues exist whether or not peer counseling groups discuss them in an open format. It seems incredibly strange to me that the University, as committed as it is to an open intellectual forum and the free discussion of ideas in the academic arena, would want to limit discussion in the much more real arena of life experience and human interaction. Second, the peer counseling groups exist for the very purpose of dealing with the issues that arise through their outreaches. They are not cruelly leaving the proctors to fend for themselves; they are providing the proctors...