Word: limiting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There remains, to be sure, a certain implausibility about Simon as the eventual nominee. Image is part of the problem; unfashionable bow ties and horn-rims can captivate a limited number of anti-chic contrarians, but they can make a candidate seem quirky to others. So is ideology; Simon's dovish rhetoric seems unlikely to play well in the South, even though Iowa voters respond to applause lines like "I think the choice is the arms race or the human race." Simon may confound liberal orthodoxy by his support of a balanced-budget amendment, but the centerpiece of his domestic...
ARMS control is a positive indication of increasing superpower communication. And arms control may be a wise check against Soviet military increases at a time when economics may require the U.S. to limit military spending. These are short-term benefits...
Since then, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange has imposed a limit on the amount that an index futures contract can rise or fall in a single day. The Merc has also increased the amount of cash, or margin, that speculators must put on deposit. Congressional investigators are talking about additional safeguards to limit the number of futures contracts a broker could execute in a day. But at hearings last week in Washington, Merc President William Brodsky argued that the sale of index futures had a stabilizing effect on Black Monday. Without that escape valve, Brodsky suggested, the Dow would have fallen...
...buffoon factor has crippled Mecham's governorship, charges of incompetence and corruption could kill it. Apart from spearheading the change to a 65-m.p.h. speed limit, the Governor's biggest accomplishment to date may be the opening of an Arizona tourism office in Taiwan. Says Republican State Senator Tony West: "Mecham has neglected the day-to-day administration of the government, and a number of his appointments have been catastrophic." Mecham's nominee for a state investigator's post was a former Marine who had been court-martialed twice. The Governor's special assistant went on leave after being charged...
...wear whatever you feel comfortable in-no need to shave--and you can work any hours. You can start right away, or whenever you want. The key to the job is a special sign that has been developed after years of scientific research. Federal regulations limit us to only a few signs a year..I (sob) was saving this one for my own son..." He was crying...