For the past 20 years, the state has set a cap on the number of students that each university can accept.
This scheme may be a quirky California creation now, but if Congress decides to set a cap on carbon emissions nationwide, this kind of horse-trading could become commonplace.
The budget negotiators, by ignoring Republican calls for even bigger tax cuts and by trying to set a cap on the cost of cuts after 2002, may suppose they have done their bit for fiscal responsibility.
She explained that she thought a system could work where the government would set a "cap on what is thought to be a reasonable amount of money for parent to pay for childcare".
He said he set up a per-capita cap in Missouri in 2002 and in 2001 Tennessee set up a per capita cap under a Democratic governor.
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Leigh Halfpenny may be set for a cap, but Tom Shanklin's spot may be at risk.
Qantas had been state-owned until 1995, when privatization also set a 49% cap on the amount foreigners could own.
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If a firm billing by the hour exceeds a set cap, lawyers may have to write off some of that time.
The government borrows money to make up the difference between what it pays and what it takes in, and the debt ceiling is a cap set by Congress on the amount of debt the federal government can legally borrow.
UPS, the largest transportation and delivery company by market cap, set a high bar for earnings in the sector.
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Due to the uncertainty about 2013 tax rates, it is possible that we are seeing some stocks getting set up for a large-cap version of the January effect.
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In the months to come, expect the Obama Administration to demand the acquiescence of oil companies to a new and improved set of cap-and-trade carbon legislation.
Frank Lampard pulled one back from the spot after Jermain Defoe was fouled, before David Beckham, winning a 99th cap, set up Peter Crouch to level it.
Shadow Minister for Finance Nick Ramsay AM stressed that a cap should be set on the amount that can be borrowed and called on the Welsh government to be more specific in regards to what projects would be funded with the additional money.
In New York, for example, a new cap has been set for state Medicaid spending.
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The regulator's objective is to set the cap so that there is a shortage of allowances relative to what the companies' business-as-usual emissions will be.
His words were echoed by Vicky Ford MEP, a fellow Conservative politician, who warned that the bonus cap was a "blunt tool" which set a "bad precedent".
However, Habana was again involved as Fourie Du Preez scored South Africa's third try, and the scrumhalf set up Wynand Olivier from a late lineout to cap victory.
Cap-and-dividend would set a price on carbon, thus giving Americans a powerful incentive to burn less dirty fuel.
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Williams is a double Grand Slam champion, twice a Lions tourist and set to break Wales' cap record.
Still, the deal has only postponed by two months negotiations over spending cuts and the government debt ceiling - a legal cap on its total borrowing set by Congress.
Just before the New Year, the US Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner indicated that the federal government would run up against the debt ceiling - a legal cap on its total borrowing set by Congress - by the end of February.
An age cap on accessing taxpayer-funded loans to set up a business should be removed, says the prime minister's enterprise adviser, Lord Young.
At the other end of the scale was Ian Watson, the Swinton Lions half-back winning a record 27th Wales cap to beat Jim Sullivan's record set in 1939.
Previously, the ceiling was set at 25%, with voting shares usually triggering concerns closer to a 10% cap.
Striker Bellamy - who is set to win his 59th international cap on Wednesday when Wales take on Luxembourg in a friendly in Llanelli - has rich competition in the forward department at Eastlands.
Tight-head prop Adam Jones is set for his 50th cap, while Roberts will be winning his fourth cap in a fourth different position, having already played at wing, full-back and inside centre for his country.
The cap is set at the equivalent to the average post-tax salary of a working household.
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