Word: limiting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Korea. But unlike most protests, fought under well-established rules of engagement at the gates of universities, the June 1987 demonstrations surged off the campuses, into the city streets. More important, they enlisted the support of middle-class citizens, whose forbearance with democracy delayed had been pushed to the limit under Chun...
...candidate whom Sasso had, perhaps too loyally, served. In arranging for an emotional homecoming, the self-reliant Dukakis all but acknowledged that Sasso is the indispensable man. The team of Chairman Paul Brountas and Campaign Manager Susan Estrich had proved adept at directing a safe, within-the-speed-limit strategy that befitted the candidate's personality. But since the Republican Convention, they had been pinned down by the furious fusillades from George Bush. There was no effective counterattack and no coherent battle plan -- just a forlorn candidate clinging to the shopworn themes that had carried him through the primaries...
Pedestrians have long struggled to act wisely and generously when confronted by the destitute. Now some officials and even advocates for the poor suggest that giving to panhandlers may only make the problem worse: the more handouts, the more hands are out. Have Americans reached the limit of their patience, their charity and their pocket change? See LIVING...
Ever since General Augusto Pinochet seized power in a coup in 1973, Chileans have lived under emergency law. Late last week they were given a respite when the military government announced a lifting of security measures that would, at least temporarily, curtail the government's extraordinary powers to limit public gatherings, restrict the press, arrest and hold persons with no judicial authorization and exile persons deemed dangerous to security. "It's better late than never," said Alejandro Hales, president of the Chilean Lawyers Association...
...deadlocked over arrangements for a full-scale meeting between parliamentarians. Pyongyang wants to include some 650 members of its Supreme People's Assembly and the 299 members of the South's National Assembly. The Southerners, contending that little could be accomplished at such a huge affair, would prefer to limit attendance to 20 representatives from each side...