Word: banning
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...Milwaukee and elsewhere subsidizing what could be considered the largest health-club chain in the nation, allowing tens of thousands of otherwise scrawny murderers, muggers and rapists to transform themselves into muscle monsters? The issue so incensed Milwaukee County supervisors that they voted 13 to 10 last month to ban weight lifting in the county's 1,400-inmate prison, a move they hope will ignite a nationwide campaign against the cult of prison body-building. Says Roger Quindel, a sponsor of the ban and an amateur weight lifter: "Allowing these guys to bulk up in prison is so stupid...
Powell's speech last year sparked a protest because of the military's ban on gay servicepeople...
...offices, classrooms and dormitories, but only on this side of the river. One need only look at the state of recycling at the Business School and the medical area to realize that it is Cambridge law which drives this improvement. In light of the fact that a statewide landfill ban on recyclable paper, glass and metals will go into effect on January 1, 1995, the University would benefit by taking the time now to work out a comprehensive recycling program before being pressured to do so. Although some debate exists over whether this ban will be enforced, the current landfill...
...have plummeted 95% in just a few years. Faced with the destruction of an irreplaceable resource, the Canadian government has done the unthinkable: prohibited all cod fishing indefinitely, and probably until the end of the century. Says Nurse, one of 27,000 fishermen thrown out of work by the ban: "Fishing is over for my lifetime. The question is, Will it ever come back...
...forest destruction had raised the specter of extinction, but in 1972 governments rallied to rescue the cats. Taking up the issue as a personal cause, Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi launched Project Tiger, which established the country's network of reserves. Western nations joined with several Asian countries to ban hunting and the trade in skins. By 1980 populations on the subcontinent had recovered to the point where B.R. Koppikar, then director of Project Tiger, could boast to the New York Times, "You can say that there is now no danger of extinction of the tiger in India...