What is the current state of the law on limiting instructions to a jury in a case where the jury was asked to consider a memo containing the word "limit the scope of the memo to the purpose for which it was offered"?

Limiting instructions are "an accepted part of our present trial system", United States v. Figueroa, 618 F.2d 934, 943 (2d Cir.1980), and we have found on numerous occasions that an instruction was sufficient to enable the jury to limit its consideration of the evidence to the purpose for which it was offered, e.g., United States v. Reed, 639 F.2d 896, 907 (2d Cir.1981); United States v. Rosenwasser, 550 F.2d 806, 809 (2d Cir.), cert. denied, 434 U.S. 825, 98 S.Ct. 73, 54 L.Ed.2d 83 (1977). Although we have recognized that "there are limits upon the powers of jurors--or judges or anyone--to keep interconnected thoughts separated from each other," United States v. Kaplan, 510 F.2d 606, 611 (2d Cir.1974), we believe that the cautionary instruction in this case was adequate to enable the jury to limit its consideration of the memo to the purpose for which it was offered.