Word: limits
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...malpractice system contributes toinefficiency in the medical industry as well,Califano said. The $4 billion spent on insurancepremiums and "billions more wasted on tests bydoctors anticipating possible lawsuits" inflatemedical fees. To combat this, he suggestedadopting laws which limit the amount of pain andsuffering payments that can be awarded...
WASHINGTON--President Reagan, scrambling for votes to win $100 million in military aid to Nicaraguan rebels, yesterday offered Congress a possible compromise that would limit the assistance to "defensive" weapons, training and logistics for the first 90 days...
...Dukakis] wants an unlimited opportunity to spend state money. He wants to control people's lives. You need money to control people's lives," Hyatt said. The candidate proposed a constitutionally mandated tax limit in order to rectify Dukakis' excesses...
Unpopular tax increases and painful spending cuts are the distasteful alternatives that Congress faces in reducing next year's federal budget deficit to the $144 billion limit required by the Gramm-Rudman measure. But now a growing number of lawmakers are talking about including a third, relatively painless remedy: a onetime federal tax amnesty that would allow past evaders to clear their slates--and at least part of Uncle Sam's--in a single stroke...
...corruption court, came forward last week with fresh details about the case. General Fabian Ver, Marcos' Chief of Staff, and 25 other defendants were charged with conspiracy in the assassination. Herrera recalled a meeting with Marcos before the trial began in which the former President asked prosecutors to limit their indictments and suggested how facts might be suppressed. Throughout the discussion, Herrera said, Marcos subtly badgered him to bring reduced charges against some of the defendants, which he later did. At the end of the meeting, Herrera maintained, "Marcos stood up, looked straight in my face and said...