Now that its bonds are rated junk, they will be off limits to investors that buy only investment-grade debt.
Eventually, they balanced the budget by dipping into the state's tobacco-settlement cash, which was meant to be off limits.
And nothing can be off limits, including spending in the tax code, particularly the loopholes that benefit very few individuals and corporations.
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Unions are now threatening to extend the strike to the lucrative Easter Week, which they had previously said would be off limits.
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Similarly, 401(k) plans and company matches tend to be off limits.
Rooney looked settled in his new surroundings, perhaps safe in the knowledge that once the initial ordeal was over, Ferguson would place him under strict protection and interviews would be off limits.
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As long as the FCC fails to inject major amounts of spectrum into the marketplace, or strongly hints that future spectrum could be off limits to carriers with specific spectrum portfolios, the agency leaves companies facing capacity shortages in the near term with no solution other than secondary market purchases or to raise retail prices.
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Should the Gulf be put off limits, that shortfall has to be made up from somewhere.
The New York Times editorialized Wednesday that the Arctic should be kept off limits.
"You'd think she'd be off-limits to anything legitimate, " says Josh Richman, a well-known Los Angeles event director.
Because many rides have minimum height restrictions, make sure they understand which ones will be off-limits to them.
That means some parts will be off-limits, and you'll sign a waiver before setting foot on the platform.
The Liberal Democrat deputy leader said some areas should be "off limits" to stop Londoners being priced out.
But walking down the street, going to the gym or taking your children to school should be off-limits.
California's fishing industry was dismayed about the number of prime fishing spots that will be put off limits.
To most Americans, something is plainly wrong with a researcher being imprisoned for gathering data deemed only after-the-fact to be off-limits.
But even when the east Europeans have departed, debating the merits of immigration will no longer be off-limits in polite society.
Even dietary considerations should not be considered off limits given that beef farming, for example, requires nine times as much water as growing cereal crops.
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In his eagerness to score a point for Team Blue by sniping at a rising star in the GOP, the Democrat wandered into territory that should be off-limits.
Also, flight routes into and out of the airport are expected to be varied to keep planes farther from the district, and additional airspace would be off-limits to the airlines.
Educators feared that all courses below university level might be ruled off limits to overseas students, even though between 40% and 50% of foreigners at British universities had taken an earlier course in Britain, usually to hone language or study skills.
The CTBT relies on 30 of 51 nations on its executive council most of whom are not friendly to the U.S. to agree that an illegal test has been conducted, and then to agree to inspect the facilities of the offending country (which can still be declared off-limits by that country).
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As Ms Wilkerson, a journalist, recalls, coloured people in Miami Beach had to be off the streets and out of the city limits by 8pm.
The market for Japanese food imports in India is pretty small, so unclear whether this means other countries will be called to supply India while Japan is off limits.
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Apple Chief Steve Jobs could be about to pull off yet another neat piece of jujitsu, using the limits placed by Microsoft on how netbook makers can use its software to set Apple apart from its low-end competitors.
It has allowed practice jerseys to be used as inventory for sponsors for the first time and opened up once-off-limits licensing deals with state lotteries and liquor labels.
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The inspectors have more powers now than they did last time, and they will be able to search Mr Hussein's vast presidential complexes, which were previously put off limits.
But now that Thanksgiving Day is no longer off limits at major players such as Target and Sears, Main Street retailers may be wondering if its time to close up shop for good.
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