Word: limiting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gallop from 8% to 20.5%, as it did between 1978 and 1981, someone now paying 9.75% on a home-equity loan might suddenly have to pay 22.25%. Such a whopping increase is possible because many equity loans lack the so-called caps common to ordinary variable- rate mortgages, which limit interest-rate hikes to two percentage points or so a year...
...Boland amendment went through several congressional rewrites (see chart). Originally it forbade any expenditures "for the purpose of overthrowing the government of Nicaragua." Then it placed a $24 million limit on aid to "military or paramilitary operations in Nicaragua." The most restrictive version, in effect from October 1984 to December 1985, stated that "no funds available" to the CIA, the Defense Department or any "entity of the U.S. involved in intelligence activities" could be used "directly or indirectly" to support the contras...
...Security Council (the U.S., the Soviet Union, Britain, France and China) as well as Israel, Jordan, Egypt, Syria and Lebanon. After a formal opening, the conference would break up into small, bilateral meetings, with Israeli representatives meeting separately with Syrian, Jordanian and joint Jordanian-Palestinian delegations. The plan would limit the role of the Soviet Union and would probably rule out the participation of the Palestine Liberation Organization unless the P.L.O. agreed at long last to renounce violence and recognize Israel's right to exist...
...produce abnormally thick, sticky mucus and other secretions that block normal lung function and interfere with digestion. Babies born with CF used to die in early childhood, but today more than half reach their early 20s, thanks to a battery of drugs that control lung infections, aid digestion and limit secretions. Still, few survive beyond the age of 30. House's lungs were "just about gone," according to his father, and for three years he had used an oxygen tank while he installed air- conditioning equipment...
Although we can understand the reaons for the shift toward unilateralism, we should not delude ourselves that such a policy will serve us well in the decades ahead. On the contrary, strong forces are at work in the world to limit our power to go it alone...