Word: limitted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Nunn was one of 13 Senators who opposed bringing up legislation in 1975 to renew the 1965 Voting Rights Act, although he voted for a bill in the end. In 1982 Nunn voted to renew the act, but he supported an amendment by South Carolina's Strom Thurmond to limit its extension to 15 rather than 25 years. Nunn voted against ending a filibuster holding up a fair-housing bill in 1980, opposed a 1978 move to extend the ratification period for the Equal Rights Amendment, and has supported a constitutional amendment to limit abortion. In 1972 Nunn...
...City Council defeated a petition to limit development along the Charles River on Monday night, ending a neighborhood group's three-year campaign to prevent Harvard and private developers from building apartment complexes in the area...
...Market is potentially a housing site," said Spiegelman, referring to an undeveloped parcel of land at the corner of Western Ave. and Memorial Drive. Under existing zoning regulations, Harvard would be permitted to build 320 units of housing on the site, Spiegelman said, and the petition would reduce that limit to 80 units...
Prison officials set a one-hour time limit on tutoring sessions, a restriction that compounds the tasks faced by the Harvard program. PBH organizers complain of a continual struggle with the prison administration for time and support--a struggle they say they usually lose. In recent weeks, for instance, the Deer Island administration has required all tutors to pass an exhaustive background check, which slows down the process of bringing teachers to the prison. "I think they just don't want 20 people coming here. [Bureaucratic red tape] is the greatest ammunition they can throw at you," says Deer Island...
...over the right to fish for cod in a 33,170-sq.-mi. triangle of the Atlantic that includes the French-owned islands of St. Pierre and Miquelon off Canada's coast. France claims a 200-mile economic zone for the islands, while Ottawa recognizes only a twelve-mile limit. Last fall the Canadians cut off the islanders' limited fishing rights in the disputed zone after talks on the issue fell apart. Late last week the two sides met to discuss the appointment of a mediator...