Word: limiting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ceiling is splotched with water stains. Yet this is the best place they've ever had. For a month before this, Rose and the children lived in a car, and bathing was carried out in Rose's girlfriend's apartment. Compared with then, Rose says, the sky's the limit these days. The kids go to school regularly, and they take part in the Center for Family Life's after- school programs. Rose too gets help from the center, mostly advice in practical things, like her welfare payments. She goes to school now too, to learn...
...Bunny cartoon, a Three Stooges short and a film like Ninja the Wonderboy. Adelman, who hopes to franchise Kidpix into a 400-theater chain, has encountered only one problem: parents get so wrapped up in shopping that they forget about Junior. Adelman is considering putting a two-hour time limit on the video baby sitter...
...taking measures to slow down or control the corporate wheeling and dealing. The Federal Reserve Board has been concerned about the financial impact of consolidations and is seeking to make it tougher to float junk bonds. Under a ruling likely to take effect in January, the Fed would limit the size of many junk-bond issues to 50% of the amount offered for a company. The move could cause a slowdown in takeovers and buyouts, at least until ingenious Wall Street moneymen devise new methods of raising funds...
...Mejia Victores contend that political kidnapings and killings, aimed mostly at peasants, union members and university students, persist. Families of the "disappeared" blame government security forces. Last week Cerezo announced that one of his first goals will be to clean up the security apparatus. He declared, "The army cannot limit the power of the head of the armed forces (the President), and if they try to do so, they will have to create a coup...
...initial 1978 House race and some of her financial disclosure statements while in office. In 1979 the Federal Election Commission fined her husband-campaign manager John Zaccaro and her committee $750 for arranging $130,000 in loans from her family, well in excess of the $1,000 legal limit allowed for individual contributors. The House Ethics Committee, which looked into Ferraro's failure to report fully her and her husband's incomes, found that she had committed technical violations but did not take further action. Ferraro has been unable to learn whether the Justice Department probe will end before...