Word: restriction
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Meanwhile, in Washington D.C., Congressional leaders are considering new policies that would further restrict indirect cost reimbursements, said the federal investigator, who works for the subcommittee...
...nature of their mission, all universities should be at least as concerned with protecting freedom of expression as the rest of society. Like the rest of society, we should also worry about who will draw the lines and how wisely they will be drawn if we begin to restrict the bounds of permissable speech," Bok stated...
Baker warned Iraqi President Saddam Hussein that the cease-fire agreement in the Persian Gulf War imposed strict limits on his military operations. The implication was that the United States might resort to force to restrict his tactics in conflicts with rebels...
Etzioni seems animated by his own agenda: intense hostility to legal efforts by civil libertarians to restrict police behavior and uphold individual rights. He says, "I'm hard put to find any organization that is so actively opposed to communitarian issues as the A.C.L.U." The American Civil Liberties Union already has critics to spare; George Bush made it a major theme of his 1988 campaign against Michael Dukakis. Moreover, A.C.L.U. executive director Ira Glasser argues, "The problem with the Etzioni group is that they assume incorrectly that individual rights are not a public good...
...persuasions warn that there is no such thing as a free lunch, our culture entries us with the promise that "Yes, you can have it all." Boosting stagnant productivity growth, restoring our decaying infrastructure, erasing our chronic fiscal hemhorrage--all of these problems absolutely require that we restrict our consumption and increase savings and investment. In a nation that can't accept that losing weight requires eating less and exercising more, this is a tough sell indeed...