Word: limiting
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...dismay of most participants, during the hypothetical crisis the U.S. Energy Department did not move to control supplies or limit the price of oil. As a result, U.S. oil prices zoomed to a theoretical $98 per bbl., with gasoline priced at $2.83 per gal. As Wisconsin Energy Administrator Roy Christiansen recalls: "The Feds didn't seem to be concerned, or want to deal with it." During the game, Wisconsin energy officials telexed Washington: "We hope it will not take the economic collapse of one of these cities . . . before the Administration realizes that its [noninterventionist] policies have failed and must...
...bills should have been sent out in June But Proposition 212, the tax-cutting measure passed in 1980, forced Cambridge and other Massachusetts cities to slice 15 percent off their tax levy until they reached a 212 percent limit. In order to collect enough tax revenue, the city had to revaluate all its real estate and did not receive state certification of its figures until last week...
Each House and each of four freshman districts will elect five representatives, and there is no limit to the number of candidates. A student may nominate himself by calling the Undergraduate Council office and then submitting a declaration of candidacy by October...
When President Reagan and Congress jousted last week over the question of their respective roles in Lebanon, they focused attention on a much debated, little understood piece of legislation: the War Powers Resolution. Passed in 1973, when the Viet Nam War was raging, the act was intended to limit a President's ability to wage undeclared war without congressional consent...
...conservatives. Noting this internal contradiction, columnist Ellen Goodman wrote a couple years ago that the New Right "was great on getting you born." but showed less concern for the quality of life outside the womb. Safe delivery into the world, they argued, not welfare or Medicaid, is the outer limit of social responsibility for the individual...