Word: limiting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...short, Fortas was the ultimate creature of Washington, who wanted to be in on everything and accountable to no one. His ruin is thus not surprising, because there is a limit quite simply to what one can get away with. And if it is true that others got away with more or just as much and were never caught, that by no means implies that Fortas was a victim of ineptitude and not, in the lexicon of today, his own sleaze...
Ravaged by cancer, reviled by many of his countrymen, Jose Napoleon Duarte ! refuses to give up. Since returning last month from the U.S., where doctors confirmed he is suffering from inoperable stomach cancer, the Salvadoran President has ignored physicians' orders to limit his work load to three hours a day; he routinely puts in seven or more. Last week he addressed the National Assembly, met with church and business leaders, and conferred with visiting Costa Rican President Oscar Arias Sanchez. This week Duarte will return to Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington to undergo chemotherapy, but he wants...
...Surgeon General wants Americans to minimize the use of salt in cooking and at the table, and to limit alcohol intake to no more than two drinks a day. Pregnant women are cautioned to skip liquor altogether. Other advice: adolescent girls and premenopausal women should increase consumption of calcium-rich foods to guard against osteoporosis, and children and women of childbearing age should be sure to eat foods high in iron to prevent anemia, a condition prevalent in low-income families...
...Kids don't, and that's where you have problems, because if parents are very lenient and don't set limits, then kids will never learn that there is a limit and that they should stop at some point," he says. "That's when they go and start experimenting with that stuff...
...November 1985, he has been held in Pollsmoor's hospital wing. Each year he is allowed 30 visits of 40 minutes ; apiece, and he may write and accept one letter a week. Although his wife Winnie collected 50,000 greetings on his behalf last week, Mandela received his limit of twelve birthday cards...