Second, the reality that BP had no contingency plan for a catastrophic blowout. but will nevertheless be partially rescued by government clean-up operations and court limits on plaintiff settlements.

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It will probably urge a ring-fencing of banks' retail operations from their investment arms, with limits on lending between them.

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Little League Baseball imposed strict per-game pitch limits five years ago, but Andrews said he performed about seven times the number of arm operations on young pitchers that he did 15 years ago.

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