Word: banning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Months after smoking was banned in all first-year dorms, Cabot House said it is likely to ban smoking later this year, and Dunster and Eliot houses are contemplating similar restrictions...
Besides the new smoking ban this fall, first-years are also subject to a ban on halogen lamps...
Dean of Freshmen Elizabeth S. Nathans said in an e-mail that "there is absolutely no connection between our decision with regard to smoking and our decision to ban halogen lamps...
However, if the Administration still feared that undergraduates might succumb to the unnatural urge to socialize even after such an exhausting day, they could simultaneously ban all halogen lamps (making themselves happy) and open all libraries 24 hours a day (making students happy). That should quell any fears of too much social activity...
OSLO: Ignoring U.S. objections, delegates from nearly 100 nations have endorsed a draft of the proposed global ban on land mines, leaving President Clinton stranded in a political minefield of his own. According to TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson, Clinton's unhappy dilemma is this: On the one hand, he would love to be seen signing a widely popular (and Princess Di-endorsed) pact and to avoid being lumped with such pariah states as China and Libya. On the other hand, he faces intense Pentagon hostility to the agreement...