Word: limiting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bill's future is unclear. The Reagan administration strongly opposes the measure as an unconstitutional limit on a president's ability to conduct foreign policy. A similar measure is pending in the House, but has not yet reached the floor...
Krug said Reagan did not trust the American public with information and charged that his Administration has tried to limit the Freedom of Information Act, which gives citizens the right to obtain a wide variety of government documents, including many controversial ones...
Moreover, 18 firms reported that an applicant's sexual orientation is sometimes considered a factor in determining insurability. That practice defies guidelines issued by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners and is against the law in eight states. But insurance executives insist that they must be allowed to limit their liabilities: a typical AIDS patient receives up to $130,000 worth of medical care...
...great Swedish skier Ingemar Stenmark, against whom he expects to race in the slalom and giant slalom this week. From Stenmark, he said, "I learned that when you want to make power, you must be quiet. Then you explode." But, he added ruefully, "you cannot go over your limit...
...Olympics, for every jubilant Pirmin Zurbriggen skiing to the limit, there is a devastated Dan Jansen suffering to the extreme. One suggests a bright ribbon, the other a black armband. But both are important players. They need each other to describe the Winter Games' opening week, with its fist in the air, its head in its hands, a grin on its face, a tear in its eye, and still eight days...