Many of the tests hit the imposed ceiling on maximum number of samples, with a total number of >30 million samples across tests.
While the bill would authorize the Pesident to issue orders stabilizing prices "at levels not less than" those of May 25, the President's orders would actually impose ceilings.
As governor of Massachusetts, he stayed out of a regional "cap and trade" plan by Northeastern states to impose ceilings on emissions by electric utilities and let companies trade their emission allowances.
It imposed ceilings on banks' holdings of foreign-exchange derivatives, because the banks tend to hedge those positions by borrowing too much from abroad.Such measures do not always work for long: South Korea's ceilings were set as a multiple of the banks' capital, so the banks just raised their capital.
The court was being urged in the three cases to impose a broad standard for judges and juries, particularly in states that have not imposed ceilings on damage awards, not to rule on the constitutionality of such limits.
Clinton's immediate objective in his trip to Capitol Hill was to deflect growing pressure by moderate and conservative Democrats to scale back his proposed tax increases and to impose ceilings on the future growth of big entitlement programs like Social Security, Medicare and food stamps.
During a joint appearance on the porch of the executive mansion here, the Assembly speaker, Sheldon Silver, reiterated his concerns that imposing a ceiling, or cap, on school property taxes would overly restrain education spending.
Lawyers representing independent distributors warn that partial remedies such as imposing a ceiling on BEW's sales distribution arm are contrary to European competition laws.
Democrats are split on the idea of imposing a ceiling on school property-tax increases, a proposal that would draw opposition from powerful teachers' unions.
In comments after his testimony, Mr. Bloomberg also criticized one of the signature ideas presented in the governor's budget: Mr. Spitzer's plan to explore imposing a ceiling on increases in local property taxes.
