Word: banned
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...least six states-New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Illinois, Michigan and Massachusetts-have found it necessary to ban housing discrimination against families with children. In most states, though, a landlord can legally evict a tenant for the "crime" of childbearing. At least that is what happened in California to Stephen and Lois Wolfson after they had a child last year. Forced to leave their $425-a-month apartment in Los Angeles' Marina del Rey, they fought the eviction in municipal court and lost. Now they live in a condominium at roughly twice the cost of their old apartment...
...also urged Congress to repeal the embargo on U.S. arms to Turkey. In a strongly phrased statement, he said that the embargo had "weakened the cohesiveness and the readiness of NATO." Ending the ban, said Carter, would be "the most immediate and urgent foreign policy decision" of the legislative session...
Last week Carter began an all-out effort at persuading the House to lift the ban later this month. Meeting at the White House with 14 Congressmen who favor repeal, Carter said that the embargo had "driven a wedge" between the U.S. and Turkey and "shaken very seriously the cohesiveness of the NATO alliance" (see WORLD). In a strategy memo distributed to the Congressmen, the Administration outlined a lobbying effort every bit as intensive as the one that preceded Senate approval of the Middle East plane deal...
...Says Carl Coleman, a public affairs officer in HEW'S regional office in Denver: "HEW gets the social engineers, the people they call do-gooders. They're committed, and they make a lot of mistakes because of their ardor." His favorite example: the West Coast bureaucrat who tried to ban father-son school banquets on the ground that they discriminated against women...
...compromise between congressmen's diverging views on this clause and Harvard's determination to see federal control of DNA regulatory standards. Much of Harvard's determination stems from friction with Cambridge over recombinant DNA experimentation. City Councilor and then-Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci spearheaded a drive to ban all recombinant DNA research here. After a series of public meetings, the Cambridge City Council imposed in the summer of 1976 a three-month moratorium on all recombinant DNA research, later extended for four more months. The city council also set up a citizens' board to review and evaluate recombinant DNA research...