capping
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A Buddhist monk has drawn international attention after South Korea won landmark Olympic snowboard medals, capping decades of his support for young athletes in a sport long unpopular at home.
From Barron's
The Justice Department’s top antitrust official said on Thursday that she is leaving her job, capping a rocky year in which she clashed with senior officials who at times favored more lenient oversight of mergers.
The City Council has put in place new eviction protections for tenants, while also capping the size of rent increases in the city’s “rent stabilized” apartments, which were mostly built before October 1978.
From Los Angeles Times
Consumer inflation picked up in December, but factory-gate prices remained in contraction, capping another year marked by persistent deflationary pressures and weak domestic demand.
Softer margins have been a major worry for Wall Street for a while now, so don’t be surprised if that figure ends up capping the stock’s gains.
From Barron's
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