Word: banned
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...advanced Sperry Rand computer to Tass, the official Soviet news agency. At the same time, he said that he was making all U.S. exports of oil technology to the Soviets subject to Government license. That was a clear warning that within the next few weeks he might ban the $144 million sale to Russia by Dresser Industries of a plant to produce advanced oil-drilling equipment...
...Gromyko will still be able to devote most of their time in Geneva to arms limitation, which Vance insisted last week was "in our national interest." Since SALT first convened in Helsinki nine years ago, progress toward curbing atomic arsenals has been frustratingly slow, and there has been no ban at all on offensive weapons since the SALT I ceilings expired last October...
Thus far, only Connecticut has banned use of the chemical. "We have no solid evidence of damage," says David Ormstedt, Connecticut assistant attorney general. "But we successfully argued the reasonable probability of harm. Our state doesn't require a dead body to ban a product." But drug-and law-enforcement officials in other states seem less concerned, noting that poppers are not addictive. Says Dr. George Michael, director of the food and drug division of the Massachusetts department of public health: "There are millions of chemicals that people can abuse. If people want to run around poisoning themselves, there...
...construction trades. In 1969 the U.S. Labor Department established the "Philadelphia Plan," which provided for goals and timetables in minority recruitment in the Philadelphia building trades. The Contractors Association of Eastern Pennsylvania sued, charging that the plan was an unconstitutional quota system and that it violated the Title VII ban on discriminatory hiring. Not so, ruled the Third Circuit Court of Appeals in 1971, upholding the President's power to attack discrimination through use of preferential remedies. "Clearly the Philadelphia Plan is color-conscious," wrote Judge John Gibbons, but to strike the scheme down under Title VII the court...
...part of the Alameda County jail complex in Pleasanton, Calif. Once a model prison, that Kafkaesque wooden barracks has in the past decade or so become a cesspool of rapes, beatings and illnesses. A U.S. district court in 1972 declared conditions there a violation of the Constitution's ban on cruel and unusual punishment...