For example, NetworkSolutions, which has limited the total number of results to 50 per search, has argued that vast fishing expeditions into their databases take too great a toll on their networks.
Since the introduction of the price cap on payday loans, which limited the total costs lenders could apply to loans to 100% of the original borrowing, Citizens Advice said it had recorded a 53% fall in the number of people struggling with this type of debt.
About six years ago I went over the economic feasibility of a universal Medicare program with three distinguished economists using a system that limited the total cost of the program to 14percentt of gross national product, slightly lower than the figure for current spending.
By passing the 1996 Anti-Terrorism and Death Penalty Reform Act, Congress restricted the number of federal habeas corpus appeals, limited the total amount of time such appeals can take, and cut off funding for legal-aid centres in 20 states.
"We've limited the total overall capacity to about 4,500 on safety advice from the police.
It limited the total amount it would pay for medical treatments over a lifetime, but there was no limit on how much a drug could cost per dose.
