Word: limiting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nervous because the cars were going much faster than the posted speed limit, but I couldn't know the horror that was about to befall me. The first hint came as a huge garbage truck, with workers hanging off of all sides, arms flailing, came roaring from beneath the underpass. I couldn't tell, it all happened so fast, but it seemed that they swerved toward me on purpose...
Diver Patrick Healy swept the one and three-meter events. Penn's Brad McNamee took Healy to the limit in the three-meter competition, but fell one point short in the final tally...
...Soviets claim a twelve-mile territorial limit, while the U.S. asserts the so-called right of innocent passage, which permits ships to stay on course even when they cut across that limit. The Soviets might well question the term innocent, knowing that the Caron is packed with high-powered intelligence- gathering gear...
...gaining currency mainly because of the rapidly expanding scientific discipline of gerontology. Modern studies of the aging process involve everyone from laboratory researchers examining brain tissue to nutritionists interviewing nonagenarians to physicians specializing | in treating the elderly. The goal of gerontology is not to extend the upper limit of human life -- now about 115 to 120 years of age -- but to make the lives of the elderly less burdensome physically and more rewarding emotionally. "The new focus," says Dr. John Rowe, director of the division on aging at Harvard Medical School, "is not on life-span but on health- span...
About the only plausible defense for the spending limits is that they buttress long-shot candidates. "It's sort of like the speed limit," says Pat Mitchell, Paul Simon's Iowa coordinator. "It keeps the carnage down." Most campaign spending experts, such as Herbert Alexander of the University of Southern California, would like to see the state caps eliminated. "They're ridiculously low," he says, "and they lead to subterfuge." All too often, in fact, the result is an amoral minuet in which the end (the White House) justifies all sorts of quasi-legal chicanery. "There is retail chiseling, like...