C1 Limits on Lenders Urged As Congress again began work on legislation to strengthen oversight of the mortgage companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, Alan Greenspan, the Federal Reserve chairman, urged lawmakers to impose sharp limits on the $1.5 trillion holdings of the companies.
That, in turn, suggests two broader conclusions: First, the public's general support for faith-based initiatives has not dulled a strong sense that using tax money imposes sharp limits on what religious groups can do.
Big money is back in New York political campaigns after a brief respite in last year's municipal elections when New York City's new campaign finance law imposed sharp limits on individual and corporate contributions.
That's why it's so rare: soon after its completion, the band, wanting to keep some of their behavior under wraps, went to court to ban the film's screening, and the court imposed sharp limits on its public showings.
The group was formed shortly after the Supreme Court handed the S.E.C. and the Justice Department a surprise defeat, closing the court door to investors who said they had been the victims of securities fraud by imposing sharp time limits on such suits.
Many of their decisions stoked Hindu-Muslim tensions, imposing sharp new religious-political identities on Indians.
Midland imposed sharp restrictions on outdoor watering and hiked rates, albeit temporarily, on water hogs.
But Ms. Murray said the board could impose sharper cuts in delivery rates and recovery of stranded debt could be limited to much less than 100percentt.
The Yemeni concession came after two weeks of impasse on issues relating to sharp limits imposed on the F.B.I. by Yemeni officials, and after personal appeals that President Clinton made on the issue to Yemen's president, Ali Abdullah Saleh.
But he drew sharp limits.
There are sharp limits to that cooperation, however.
