Word: limiting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Japan's automakers, which voluntarily limit exports to the U.S. to 2.3 million cars a year, are rapidly shifting production to American shores in hopes of dousing the protectionist sentiments that continue to simmer in the U.S. Congress. Many firms are finding an added benefit: it is now cheaper to build cars in Ohio than in Osaka. By the early 1990s, at least 14 Japanese plants in the U.S. could be turning out 2 million cars a year...
lightweight: a shell with a specific weight limit. For men, the boat must average 150 pounds per oarsman. For women, the average must be 129.5 pounds...
...effort to avoid legal liability and apply standard college rules to the selective societies, Wellesley will limit to less than 100 people the parties that traditionally have attracted up to 300 guests...
...most beautiful thing, to be with 60, 70 people on a set and to make stories. It helps me to act. I work seriously but never take myself seriously. I want to enjoy myself -- really enjoy -- like a child. Because all actors are children. If it is a limit that an actor is still a child, it is also a miracle. And when the film is finished, I am looking for another film. Otherwise my life is a little more bored...
...episodes represent a flare-up in a long-running feud over how strictly the U.S. must limit its exports to preserve its technological edge. The dispute pits America's top two export watchdogs against each other. On one side is Stephen Bryen, a Deputy Under Secretary of Defense, who contends that Commerce is proving inept and overly permissive in its approval of export permits, allowing millions of dollars in strategic U.S. products to reach such final destinations as the Soviet Union, China and Iran. On the other side is Paul Freedenberg, an acting Commerce Under Secretary, who maintains that...