Word: limited
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...passion. "We carry Thomas Mann! We have all of Dickens!" Ross sued two mass-market % publishers who, he claimed, discriminated against him by giving unfair discounts to chains. He won an out-of-court settlement but still argues that chains, with their narrow stock of titles and widespread outlets, "limit the availability of ideas in our culture...
...California's Henry Waxman, a champion of even stricter standards for clean air. The compromise proposal would cut emissions of nonmethane hydrocarbons, a key ingredient in smog, which can now average no more than 0.41 gram per mile for a carmaker's fleet. The House action would place a limit of 0.25 gram per mile on all cars by 1996; the output of nitrogen oxide, another source of smog, would be required to fall from 1 gram per mile to 0.4 gram. Unless the Environmental Protection Agency ruled otherwise, automakers would then be ordered to slash the reduced levels...
NUCLEAR TESTING. The Threshold Test Ban treaty, signed in 1974 but never ratified, provides for a ceiling of 150 kilotons on underground nuclear blasts -- a limit that both nations currently observe. Baker and Shevardnadze agreed in principle on verification procedures that should allow the treaty to be completed at next year's summit. Yet nuclear testing will remain contentious: the Soviets still want a comprehensive ban on all underground blasts; the U.S. insists that nuclear weapons must continue to be tested for safety and reliability...
...addition, schools would be ineligible for federal money if they did not limit advertisements for alcoholic beverages in campus publications. Schools would also be required to provide all students and employees with information about alcoholic counseling, treatment and rehabilitation programs...
...aide said the senators would try to introduce their own amendment to limit the Bingaman proposal today, before the Senate vote. Even if the bill were passed, he said, several senators would attempt to modify the measure in subsequent House-Senate conference committee hearings...