• But she has switched from dessert white wines, her drink of choice, to reds, setting a limit of one per outing.

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  • But setting a limit on a news outfit's market share would mean constraining the growth of an expanding media group if its competitors were doing badly.

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  • Many politicians from richer and more stable western European countries have argued for setting a limit to the number of poor, developing democracies they take on.

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  • Parents should be firm with their kids, say advisers, by making them pay for rent and other expenses if possible, setting a limit for how long they are allowed to stay, and avoiding the temptation to offer extra financial help, like loans.

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  • Setting a limit on companies' emissions beyond which they must buy offsets is not thought to be on the cards, but hopes are growing that China will commit to some kind of non-binding target, possibly at the Copenhagen climate-change summit at the end of this year.

    ECONOMIST: Carbon markets in China

  • The pessimists argue that for all its construction boom (William Penn's statue, once setting a limit to any building's height, became a relative dwarf more than a decade ago), Philadelphia is still a laggard, slowed down by a history of outdated habits and infrastructure that does not apply to sunbelt cities such as Atlanta or Houston.

    ECONOMIST: City life

  • "We may have discussions with a very small number of institutions, whose shortfalls appear particularly extreme, about setting an appropriate limit for 2013-14, " says a letter from the funding council.

    BBC: University applications 'not recovering' at deadline

  • The Act removed a statute of limitations on discriminatory pay practices, setting the time limit to six months for every paycheck where the employee was discriminated against (and not 180 days from the date of the first paycheck).

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  • In the longer term the bonus mess underlines the importance of getting the state out of finance: setting a time limit for the explicit guarantees and finding ways to lessen the implicit promise of support through living wills and the like.

    ECONOMIST: Bank bonuses

  • In place of creating a national health system, the law bans insurance companies from denying coverage to people with pre-existing medical conditions, bars insurers from setting a dollar limit on health coverage payouts and requires them to cover preventive care at no additional cost to consumers.

    CNN: Emotions high after Supreme Court upholds health care law

  • The law establishes a staged series of reforms over several years, including banning insurance companies from denying coverage to people with pre-existing conditions, forbidding insurers from setting a dollar limit on health coverage payouts, and requiring them to cover preventative care at no additional cost to consumers.

    CNN: Supreme Court decision on polarizing health care law looms

  • Setting a CO2 emission limit for all new power stations of, say, 350g of CO2 per kilowatt hour of electricity.

    BBC: NEWS | Science/Nature | Germany leads 'clean coal' pilot

  • If Congress would make these changes, it would establish spending cuts as the default setting when the debt limit is reached and provide an orderly and systematic way to go about making the cuts.

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  • Last month, the FTC notched a win for its guideline approach when the online-advertising industry voluntarily agreed to one of the main privacy recommendations: the development of a "Do Not Track" mechanism that would let users limit Web tracking using a single setting in Web browsing software.

    WSJ: FTC Urges Congress to Pass Digital-Privacy Law

  • The UK's opt-out from the Working Time Directive only applies to the directive's clause setting a 48-hour limit on the working week.

    BBC: EU court: Workers sick on leave can get extra time off

  • By evoking the economic crisis, and setting some kind of time limit of America's involvement, Mr Obama is acknowledging the qualms of his own party.

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  • "There's something inherently wrong with setting up a race that you can only win by breaking the speed limit, " says Susan Kang, attorney for the Flint family, adding that even after Flint's death Strava users continued setting KOMs on that course, a feat that requires defying the posted speed limit amid often heavy automotive traffic.

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  • For instance, some states limit participation (and save money) by setting more restrictive rules for those applying for home care than for those getting care in a nursing facility.

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  • At stake is the need to limit ocean acidification and the decline in biodiversity while setting up more effective institutional mechanisms to protect both the ocean and coastal areas.

    UNESCO: THEMES

  • Most importantly perhaps, Mr Bersani would scrap the rules setting a minimum distance between rival businesses that limit competition in much of the retail sector.

    ECONOMIST: Italy needs to deregulate its economy

  • On the minimum wage, the government took great care to limit its potential cost in terms of jobs, for example by setting a lower rate for those aged under 22.

    ECONOMIST: The economy

  • Among them: freeze entitlement programs and raise the Social Security retirement age to 70, tackle health care in a "serious way" and limit government spending to below 1% of nominal gross domestic product while setting up a modern Works Progress Administration to build infrastructure.

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