Word: limiting
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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...
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...
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...
...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...
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...