Word: limiting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Gramm-Rudman bill! This simplistic cure-all had been lying around since last summer, gaining a modest amount of support. Now, as an amendment to the bill increasing the debt limit, it became what Co-Sponsor Rudman wryly called "a bad idea whose time has come." There was no time for committee hearings; many members never read the measure that gave away their responsibilities, but they overwhelmingly voted for it; final approval came at 10:15 p.m. on the eve of the prospective default, and then it was soon time to go home for Christmas. Yes, Virginia, there...
However, the enrollment in the AMP has not changed from its standard 400 in many years, making the demand for executive education programs outweigh the supply. Despite the increasing interest, Wiltsey says that the school manages to limit the number of applicants to any specific session. "We in various subtle ways manage the pool of applicants," he says. "The worst thing that could happen to us is to have the same kind of chaos in the application process as Harvard College," he says, because the school is dealing with companies who might not send executives to them again if their...
...Yale must limit the number of Crimson power plays while capitalizing on its own one-man advantages...
...Yale hockey game (January 31, 7:30 p.m., Bright Center) is all but sold out. A block of seats is being held for undergraduates. Coupon number seven can be exchanged for a reserved seat starting Monday, January 13. A limit of two per undergraduate will be enforced. Tickets are seven dollars full price. Bring coupon book and i.d. to the basement of Harvard Hall to pick up tickets. Harvard Ticket Office
...average running time for the last 25 winners of the Best Picture Oscar is a leisurely 2 hr. 26 min.; Universal's only other Christmas release, Out of Africa, runs 2 hr. 34 min.) When Gilliam delivered a streamlined cut that was still six minutes over the limit, Sheinberg determined to withhold the film until Universal minions could prepare their own version: shorter, more "accessible," and with a more "satisfying" ending, which the director believed would fatally distort his film. By this time Gilliam was seeing life imitating Brazil. Like Sam, he was being compromised by a "ruthlessly legal" cadre...