Word: limiting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Nevada, where the roads are mostly flat, straight and empty, drivers never did like to poke along. Nevada was the last state to comply with the federally imposed 55-m.p.h. limit in 1975, and last week it was the first to try officially to break it, upping the speed limit to 70 m.p.h. on a short stretch...
...state legislature hoped that coupling the higher speed limit with a mandatory seat-belt requirement would induce the feds to exempt Nevada from the 55-m.p.h. restriction. No such luck. When the Federal Highway Administration promptly announced a cutoff of road-building funds--including $66 million for next year--the state just as quickly backed off. But not without vowing to fight: the state has filed a suit against the Federal Government, calling the threat to stop funding an infringement on states' rights. It is, said Nevada Chief Deputy Attorney General William Isaeff, "like putting a gun to our head...
What they have begun to mean to American restaurateurs is a new way to attract the gastronomically curious and diet-conscious, who prefer to sample a progression of small dishes rather than limit tasting options to one large main course. Labeled grazers by the restaurant industry, this generally young and trendy clientele is flocking to tapas bars from coast to coast...
Meanwhile, in Washington, Israeli officials were trying to limit another investigation. A delegation that included Meir Rosenne, the Israeli Ambassador to the U.S., met with Justice Department officials in an effort to head off the indictment of Aviam Sella, an Israeli air-force colonel. He has been implicated in the case of Jonathan Pollard, an American naval analyst who has pleaded guilty to turning over suitcases full of U.S. intelligence secrets to Israel...
...have a summit where we can reach agreement." But his subordinates are divided over a U.S. response to the Soviet arms-control proposal tabled in Geneva last month. The Soviets have offered to trim their large land-based intercontinental ballistic missile forces in exchange for a U.S. promise to limit its Strategic Defense Initiative to research only...