Word: limiting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Stephen Tshewete are gaining greater followings. A former prisoner who has urged that township unrest be brought into white areas, Tshewete's impassioned pleas are becoming increasingly popular. If moderates who want peaceful change are being thrown in jail, youths are saying to themselves, why should they continue to limit their tactics...
After all, the proposal does significantly alter the balance of power between the President and Congress, placing substantial new authority in the executive. The item veto is a powerful political tool, and there is no limit to how the White House can use it. In addition to simply cutting spending, the President can use his new veto for narrow ideological purposes or as a threat to individual congressmen...
Reviewing drama for TIME, with its worldwide readership, is very different from a local newspaper's theater beat. Says Henry: "Every review has to answer the question, Why is this important enough for us to tell our readers about it? At TIME we tend to limit ourselves to events of great literary significance, those involving very famous people, or on rare occasions, those we find simply irresistible fun." For every show he reviews in print, he estimates, he sees seven or eight more, on Broadway and off, across the country, in Canada and Europe...
...were lost on Sept. 12 when the European Space Agency had to destroy the misfired Ariane rocket that carried them. The mishaps brought to $600 million the total cost to insurers of the seven satellites lost in the past two years. As a result, some insurers said they will limit their coverage of satellites, while others may get out of the space business altogether...
...second round of the Geneva talks last summer, Soviet Negotiator Victor Karpov informally suggested that Moscow might be willing to cut its arsenal of missiles and bombers by as much as 40%, including for the first time nuclear "charges," meaning warheads. In the past, the Soviets had agreed to limit only launchers, which allowed their missiles to be loaded up with multiple warheads. The Soviets also alluded to setting a ceiling on the number of land-based missiles. The U.S. considers these big "silo busters" to be the most destabilizing element in the Kremlin's nuclear arsenal, because they give...