Word: limiting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stakeout" had begun at 11;00 on Thursday morning, the third day of maneuvering in the Senate over HR 2, an untidy, bloated package of $87.9 billion in transportation funds, with an increase in the speed limit tacked on to attract Western legislators' support. Rhetoric aside, nobody cared what was in the bill by now, and few had even read its entire convoluted text...
Someone said the encampments outside Albany budget hearings lasted for days at a time. I looked at the ceiling and wondered whether this waiting game became bearable with practice. A camera technician pushed through the crowd with a folded tripod, muttering, "This is the limit. I'm getting my real estate license...
Although the council funded advertising for the event at its last meeting before spring break, many students said that the current lack of awareness will severely limit this event's chances of benefitting student life...
...compromise that led the package to success includes mass transit projects in large Eastern states that greased the decision for several Senate Republicans, and a provision allowing states to raise the speed limit from 55 to 65 miles per hour, which gave a powerful incentive to legislators from rural Western states...
Tensions between the two NATO allies abated, at least temporarily, when the Sismik 1 began seismic tests in Turkish waters. A spokesman in Ankara said that "as long as Greece stays within the six-mile territorial waters limit in its oil research, we will do the same." Greek Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou pronounced his outlook on the squabble as one of "restrained optimism...