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In June he revealed a state budget measure that capped how much in tax credits a business can claim each year, a limit industry groups warned would undercut the expanded program.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026
The spokesperson said that "strict rules to limit subletting... prevent the risk of people profiting by letting subsidised affordable housing".
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026
Once customers trusted Home Depot as their partner to accomplish projects, there was almost no limit on how much they could spend in their lifetimes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
The rising cost of repairing damage, particularly for older buildings, is also driving some insurers to drop or limit coverage.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026
My saliva would soon boil, since my fury was approaching the Armstrong limit.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
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But the new Senate Bill 186 enhances refundability for the industry and exempts independent productions from the credit limits, starting next year.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026
"Our search for the molybdenum was technically extremely challenging and required the experts at the synchrotron to push their instrument to its absolute limits," says Wagner.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026
In “Fjord,” Mungiu tests neutrality’s limits when the stakes are at their highest.
From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2026
Federal Aviation Administration found that even relatively small leaks can release levels of neurotoxic chemicals that exceed U.S. occupational health exposure limits.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
He gets a sense of control, yet you prescribe the limits.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
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“There are indications there is limited additional ship-to-ship transfer support capacity for more shuttle flows,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026
Those steps become much harder when laboratory resources are limited.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026
She's part of England's older LGBTQ+ community, which a new report suggests often experiences poorer health, more limited finances and greater social isolation than the wider older population.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026
Neil Saunders, a retail analyst at GlobalData, said the toys and other gear offered by restaurants particularly appeal to that market given that they often arrive in the form of limited drops.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 19, 2026
And as Tamika had pointed out during my bike-a-thon, “Knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world.”
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
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Users can now regularly get answers to their questions about major world events, stock market moves and recipes via AI-generated search results and chatbots, limiting the need to visit news sites directly.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
That said, Goodman said that for people with more limited savings, if they have to spend down principal in order to delay, that might be limiting.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026
But he left an indelible mark on the environment, authoring legislation offering incentives to recycle, limiting advertisers’ inflated claims about products’ environmental benefits and combating water and air pollution.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
The digital divide can also pose a real threat, leaving older people vulnerable to high-tech crimes such as online scams or limiting their access to medical services, experts say.
From Barron's ● Sep. 14, 2026
Finally, in former times New Guinea’s available root crops were limiting for calories as well as for protein, because they do not grow well at the high elevations where many New Guineans live today.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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