Word: limiting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Actually, most House members would find their incomes substantially increased, since fewer than half reach the current honoraria limit of 30 percent of income, according to their financial disclosures...
...that the promises he made in the campaign mean tough cuts for other programs. Already, he has pledged not to touch Social Security, and has suggested he would not cut Medicare. Moreover, while Bush has said he would trim the defense budget, he has said he would limit it only to the level of inflation...
...page statement calls for a "Presidential Initiative on Information Policy" that would limit the government's right to restrict the publication of scientific research and would expand public access to information on executive decisions...
Many lawyers contend that the rules may sharply limit plea bargaining after indictments, thus crowding court calendars. The crunch behind bars is expected to get worse. The 50,000 inmates jamming federal penitentiaries are already 60% more than capacity. "We're going to see dramatic increases in prison terms and prison overcrowding," predicts Sam Buffone, chairman of an American Bar Association committee on the sentencing system...
...split puts in conflict two radically different concepts of opera. Barenboim's plan was to concentrate on top talent, starting with himself in charge of everything at an annual salary of $1.1 million; he expected to devote extra time to rehearsals and limit performances to about 160 a year. "He doesn't want a few special roses in a garden of weeds," as Mehta puts it. Berge, who took over the opera association last August, not only requested that Barenboim take a pay cut and give up substantial executive authority but also demanded that the $430 million Bastille opera house...