Word: limiting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Democratic candidates pushed for deepcuts in funding for Nicaraguan rebels. Only Gorewas willing to back any funding for the Contrarebels, and would limit that to humanitarianassistance...
...proposed cap will limit hospital costs to 2 percent higher than the rate of medical inflation. The plan's sponsors who have commissioned in depth studies on hospital budgets said hospitals can function efficiently under...
Representatives from 35 countries met in Montreal last week to hammer out an agreement that would limit man-made damage to the atmosphere's protective ozone layer. As they deliberated, the British journal Nature published a study offering the strongest evidence so far that man-made compounds called chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) are the culprits. Crofton Farmer, principal author of the study and an atmospheric physicist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., reported that data gathered last year in the Antarctic are "entirely consistent" with the premise that CFCs -- used in refrigeration devices and as ingredients in plastic foams...
...ease the burden of those on all-night call. Others, such as Baystate Medical Center in Springfield, Mass., have established support groups for house staff to help them cope with emotional difficulties. In some cases, fear of malpractice suits has served as incentive for medical centers to limit the hours that residents spend in the emergency room or in such specialty services as anesthesiology, where the slightest error can be fatal...
...practice of "repressive tolerance." He argues that much of the country's leniency is actually "tactical," in that it is aimed at isolating and controlling a problem "under supervision of the authorities." The technique has long been used in the Netherlands. As Van Doorn explains, "Allow open prostitution, but limit it to certain neighborhoods, that is, the notorious walletjes ((red- light districts)) in Amsterdam and other cities." Similarly, the sale of soft drugs is condoned at certain youth clubs...