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Word: limiting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...call on junior and senior members in their offices, not his. Perhaps his least-known accomplishment illustrates the point best: a 1979 amendment to the budget act allowed grateful members to vote an increase to program budgets without casting a highly visible second vote to raise the debt limit to pay for such projects. When he set his sights on the chairmanship of the Democratic caucus in 1984, he employed a trick he had used at Northwestern: he deputized peers most likely to prove strong opponents and then coasted to an easy victory. In his presidential campaign, he has built...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign Portrait, Dick Gephardt:Young Man In a Hurry | 11/30/1987 | See Source »

Perhaps the greatest failure of the summiteers was their unwillingness to deal with the major entitlement and Government pension programs, such as Social Security, which accounts for 20% of federal outlays. Various ideas were floated, including setting a limit on cost of living adjustments, delaying them for a few months or taxing Social Security benefits for wealthy recipients. Peter Peterson, a former Commerce Secretary and one-time head of the old Lehman Bros. Kuhn Loeb investment house, said that by limiting Social Security COLAs to 2%, the summiteers could have saved the Government $150 billion by the year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Turkey And Trimmings | 11/30/1987 | See Source »

More dismal is the picture on independent stations, which typically offer a horde of look-alike syndicated cartoons in the before- and after-school hours on weekdays. Though the networks continue to adhere to pre-1984 limits of twelve ad minutes an hour on weekdays, 9 1/2 minutes on weekends, a recent study of eight big-city independent stations revealed that all but one were exceeding the old limit during weekday children's programming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Zapping Back at Children's | 11/30/1987 | See Source »

...Cambridge License Commission denied liquor licenses to two Indian restaurants, Gandhi and Old Calcutta, and prevented Warburton's from moving into the square because a current city moratorium has set a limit on the number of liquor licenses and fast-food restaruants in the area...

Author: By Eric S. Solowey, | Title: City Blocks Liquor, Fast Food | 11/24/1987 | See Source »

After reconsidering the fast-food limit, the Central Square Economic Development Subcommittee last week completed a report recommending to the City Council that a moratorium capping the number of fast food restaurants in the area be extended and made a permanent policy...

Author: By Eric S. Solowey, | Title: City Blocks Liquor, Fast Food | 11/24/1987 | See Source »

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