Word: limiting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...There's a limit to what you can do realistically...
...party-line 21-11 vote, the panel agreed to the $994.2 billion spending plan proposed by committee Chairman William H. Gray III, D-Pa. It would reduce the deficit next year to $137 billion, $7 billion below the Senate budget passed last week and well within the statutory limit of $144 billion...
...attack. Meeting in emergency session in the Hague only hours before the strike, foreign ministers of the twelve European Community nations went further than they ever had before toward meeting U.S. requests for collective action. They pledged to reduce the number of Libyan diplomats allowed into their countries, to limit their freedom of movement and to keep them under close surveillance. That move has some importance: Libyan "diplomats" are believed often to pass instructions, money and weapons to terrorists...
...North and South Amateur. Barbara and Jack have a daughter and four sons. Increasingly, the children egg their father into joining them at golf, feigning selfish interests but not fooling him. "They want the old man to practice," he says. Corporate setbacks have recently conspired with creaking muscles to limit his time on the courses he builds. It would be an exaggeration to say Jackie had to lead the old man around the National like a blind ward, but just a slight one. Color-blind to begin with (Hart Schaffner and Barbara have dressed him for years), Nicklaus has lost...
Monsanto officials, like others in the industry, are concerned that overregulation could stifle many of the young, struggling biotechnology companies and suggest that there is a limit to the patience of larger firms. "If we can't make these tests in a reasonable period of time," says Howard Schneiderman, Monsanto's senior vice president for research and development, "I'm going to give up and just not do it. If someone is going to worry about a tomato plant that will devour New York City or a microbial pesticide that will develop into plague, I can't justify spending millions...