Word: limitted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Moro instructed the agent to limit the size of his deposits to amounts smaller than $10,000. This laundering ploy enables criminals to evade laws that require banks to report cash deposits of $10,000 or more to the Federal Government. Checks drawn against those funds were deposited in banks around the world by Moro's staff...
lightweight: a shell with a specific weight limit. For men, the boat must average 150 pounds per oarsmen. For women, the average must be 129.5 pounds...
...decision in favor of the President would cement the primacy of the executive branch in foreign affairs. A decision for the Congress could limit the extent to which the President can swiftly act in the nation's interest with the use of military troops...
Nixon vetoed the bill, calling it unconstitutional, but Congress overrode the veto. Every president since--Democrat and Republican--has called the act an unconstitutional limit on the power of the executive. And yet, every president has obeyed the law by keeping Congress, or at least individual members of Congress, informed of the nation's military position...
...dividends. This is not the case in the U.S., where dividends are taxed first as corporate income and then as personal income. The European method favors dividend payments and makes stocks more attractive to investors; it should be adopted in the U.S. At the same time, we should limit the federal tax subsidies of speculative corporate debt by reducing, to some extent, the deductibility of interest for overleveraged nonfinancial companies...