Word: banned
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Some problems remain, however. Persistent student calls for the reform of the committee: including proposals to equalize the number of students and Faculty members on the CRR, and to ban the use of legal counsel at its proceedings: have yet to be considered by the Faculty...
...Republican adversary, Congressman Ronald Sarasin, faults her for substantially increasing the state budget. But Grasso has produced a surplus for three successive years, and she has proposed sales and business tax cuts for the 1979 budget. Sarasin is leading a petition drive for a state-constitution ban on an income tax and a limit on spending. He says of the 50,000 people who have signed to date: "I see them as supporting the concept. I hope they support...
Aside from the witty lines he fed Mor ley, Screenwriter Peter Stone has concoct ed a script strewn with terrible puns ("Ban the bombe") and snickering double-entendre gags that make all the tired connections between food and sex. The arbitrary plot about a chef murderer hops from place to place on the slightest whim. It is little more than an excuse for cameo appearances by top European actors (Philippe Noiret, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Jean Rochefort) and restaurants (Paris' Tour d' Argent, London's Café Royal). The settings are sumptuously photographed by John Alcott (Barry Lyndon...
...leading foe of the ERA, charging that the International Women's Year conference in Houston was dominated by "militant Marxists" and "lesbians." He claims that President Carter sold out to the Russions by cancelling B-1 Bomber production. He led an unsuccessful fight to lift the Rhodesian chrome import ban. His proposed constitutional amendment prohibiting abortion was so strong that it basically outlawed...
...years have been urging the NCI to test the drug, Upton's decision was apparently due more to political pressure than to scientific evidence. Laetrile promoters claim that some 70,000 cancer victims are using the apricot-pit-based substance in the U.S., despite a federal ban on interstate shipments, and have succeeded in recent years in getting 17 states to legalize its use. They scored another success recently when the U.S. Court of Appeals ruled that terminally ill cancer patients could procure the injectable form of Laetrile for personal use. Nevertheless, scientific proof that the drug works...