On a clear December afternoon, Roger Thomas was completing a four-month renovation of the high-limit slot-machine room at the Wynn Las Vegas resort.
However, a firmer U.S. dollar index that is hovering near a seven-month high continues to limit buying interest in gold and silver markets.
The Obama administration wants Congress to require background checks for all gun sales, ban military-style weapons and limit high-capacity ammunition magazines to 10 rounds.
Although it is illegal in America to serve alcohol to people under 21 (an absurdly high age-limit by European standards), teenagers get booze with ease in fraternity houses.
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However, he warned that intense competition, changes in the telecommunications market and increasingly high mobile penetration could limit growth.
The stronger U.S. dollar index that scored another fresh 7.5-month high overnight continues to limit buying interest not only in gold and silver, but in many other commodity markets, too.
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Federal regulations would limit how high premiums could rise.
If the Broadcast Flag cannot be used, program providers will have to weigh whether the risk of theft is too great over free, off-air broadcasting and could limit such high-quality programming to only cable, satellite and other more secure delivery systems.
Mr Huhne said the government would aim to encourage new entrants into the energy market, make clean energy more attractive to investors, develop reserve plants to ensure "the lights stay on" during periods of high demand, and limit the amount of carbon emissions from "dirty" power stations.
Professor Wiseman also recommended that people limit consumption of high calorie foods in general.
Thanks to Ohio's high unemployment rate, that limit has been waived until October 2011.
Just to demonstrate that no matter where you come from, there's no limit to how high you can climb.
If the stock rises instead of falling, there's no limit on how high it might go and how much you might lose.
When the Northern Rock bank went bust that year it became obvious that this limit was not high enough to reassure savers, who were then staging a crippling run on the bank.
Many of the foreigners' factories are there because investors in China sought a bolt hole: China has its own high tariffs, many countries limit imports from China, and trade was each year threatened by the annual debate in Congress over the terms of America's trade relations with China.
Health and Human Services officials say competition among insurers, as well as provisions to limit their financial risk from attracting high-cost consumers, will exert downward pressure on premiums, and point to the tax subsidies that will limit many consumers' costs.
Then there are the high-fee, low-limit cards, which have gotten some issuers in trouble with regulators.
Many researchers worry however, that this device has a high error rate, which might limit its usefulness.
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Demography may not be destiny, but it is about to create high barriers for China and severely limit its potential.
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While oil prices are high and economic-austerity laws limit increases in public spending, there is more or less enough to go around.
For instance, new regulations will limit banks from charging high fees on debit card transactions and restrict certain interest rate increases on credit cards.
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Thomas Frist says he will immediately end doctor-hospital partnerships (and dismantle existing ones), tone down Columbia's high-pressure marketing tactics and limit the firm's expansion into communities where Columbia has met (and often steamrollered) local opposition.
The bar's policy is no more than three pours of absinthe in an evening, but the amount of time it takes to prepare and drink the spirit, along with its high alcohol content, means the limit is rarely an issue.
But when we do alpine skiing, the limit is the 100m-high slope we have.
If your income is too high, you can waltz around the limit by using a dummy donor.
We believe this will limit the business model to high single-digit operating margins.
Similarly, if a high balance is reported as your credit limit and your spending is fairly consistent, your utilization ratio will hover near 100% on a monthly basis as well.
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Reforms in the Senate and House bills will impose annual out-of-pocket caps, for the first time placing an upper limit on what individuals with high-cost chronic conditions will have to pay out-of-pocket.
Despite these positive attributes, we have modest expectations for Invokana and the SGLT-2 class because the drug and class are associated with a relatively high rate of genital infections which will limit uptake in our view.
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