Word: limiting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Attempts were twice made by Massachusetts legislators to limit his authority. Nonetheless, he was frequently mentioned as a candidate for a U.S. Supreme Court post...
...problems, Iran under the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini seems increasingly confident and active. Earlier this month Tehran persuaded its partners in the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries to limit oil production and thus push up the price. Last week it received two high-level envoys from Syrian President Hafez Assad, the most influential power broker in the Arab world, who called the alliance between the two countries "invulnerable." Now Iran is negotiating with France for the return of $1 billion in Iranian funds that were frozen by Paris after the Ayatullah came to power...
...October got Government permission to increase Loews' holdings to as much as 25% of CBS's voting stock. But Tisch, who now has a seat on the CBS board of directors, reportedly refused the company's request to sign a standstill agreement that would bind him to the 25% limit. Last week his holdings reached 24.9% of common stock (though less than 24% of voting stock), causing concern at CBS that Tisch may be readying a move to take control of the company...
...Kansas, and there seem to be a whole lot of tornadoes directly overhead," Wyman good-naturedly told TIME last week, "along with some that never took place." Wyman denied he is leaving CBS and pointed out that Tisch is still within his agreed-upon limit of 25% of CBS stock. Any effort by Tisch to acquire more shares, Wyman said, would be strongly resisted. Such a move "would represent a broken agreement, and everyone should expect that that condition would be the basis for considering alternatives to protect the independence of the company...
...goal of the Saudis' tactic was to drive high-cost non-OPEC oil producers out of business and thus limit energy exploration. To some extent, the swamp 'em and stomp 'em strategy has worked. In the U.S., for example, the number of active drilling rigs has fallen from 1,911 a year ago to fewer than 800 today...