Word: limitted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...President is readying a package of reforms to fulfill his campaign pledge to improve Government ethics. The sweetener for Congress would be a pay raise, though Bush is unlikely to specify an amount. In exchange, Bush would probably call for a ban on speaking fees and strict limits on the use of campaign funds for office or personal expenses. He might call for an outright ban on political-action committees that are connected to labor or business groups. To head off a congressional outcry about the lost sources of campaign funds, the President may propose raising the $1,000 limit...
...medium-heavy oil when it ran aground in the Delaware. While the spill was conspicuous, the Coast Guard's marine-safety office in Philadelphia moved quickly. Cleanup crews surrounded it with booms and began pumping the remaining oil in the ship's tanks into barges in order to limit the damage. The fast response was heartening. But the U.S. really needs a way of preventing more spills...
Annuities are like nondeductible IRAs, only without the $2,000 annual limit. With this one, Amex was offering to charge my card anywhere from $50 to $3,000 a month, at my option, and to pay me interest on my monthly contributions at a 12% "introductory rate" through June of next year. Thereafter the rate would be "set above a nationally recognized interest index plus 1.5%." I was all set to sign up, when I noticed...
...invited at all, but Dan Rostenkowski, whose committee writes the tax bills, collected the most money of all, $222,500. Jim Wright so easily surpassed the $34,500 that legislators are allowed to keep for personal use that he allegedly used sales of his book to get around the limit...
...years since the Watergate scandal, repeated efforts at reform have failed because they do not reach the systemic problem. Public officials are now required to file endless financial-disclosure reports, limit the private contributions they accept and wait longer and longer periods of time before they are allowed to lobby their former colleagues. But disclosure works for Congress only if constituents have the opportunity to pore through the voluminous reports and then vote based on what they find there. This welter of regulations has done almost nothing to choke off the cash flow...