The day before, a doctor had written a 24-hour order for restraints — the maximum length of time permitted — which a federal law on patient rights requires for such confinement, though a patient is not supposed to be restrained for more than four hours without a recurring order.
That is five times the maximum exposure permitted for American nuclear plant workers.
Normally, Japanese workers were barred from receiving more than a hundred millisieverts over five years; now the Health Ministry officially raised that limit to two hundred and fifty millisieverts — five times the maximum exposure permitted for American workers.
Those remaining are being asked to make escalating — and perhaps existential — sacrifices that so far are being only implicitly acknowledged: Japan's Health Ministry said Tuesday it was raising the legal limit on the amount of radiation to which each worker could be exposed, to 250 millisieverts from 100 millisieverts, five times the maximum exposure permitted for American nuclear plant workers.
Jessica Allen, who just finished a one-year stint in the job, said she followed 2,001 journalists at any one time because that was the maximum number permitted for her Twitter account.
At the time, the Health Department severely rebuked the hospital and fined it $16,000, the maximum amount permitted, for eight violations of state regulations on health care that it said contributed to the error.
Nasdaq and S&P futures were halted after hitting limit down, the maximum amount permitted for a commodity price to decrease in one trading day.
The maximum deviation permitted for matching the peptide mass values was 100 ppm.
The Dutch bank owns 26%, the maximum permitted for foreigners, in an insurance joint-venture with Vysya.
Eight of these contributors, including Bernard H. Mendik, the chairman of the Real Estate Board, gave $4,500, the maximum permitted for a citywide contest under the public financing law.
As time permits, set up a routine for yourself.
