Word: banning
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Knowles also defended the restrictions thatwere placed on museum fundraising during thecommittee's review. This ban, staff members havesaid, thwarted efforts to help curb the deficit...
Machinist, who was a member of the committeereviewing the museum, said the fundraisingrestrictions were not a ban, rather a temporarymeasure requiring new fundraising for the museumto be authorized by the director...
...Ban Unconstitutional...
...lower house of Japan's parliament passed his four-bill reform package. The country's notoriously corrupt political system will undergo a major overhaul if the bills are passed by the parliament's upper house, as expected. Among the changes are a switch to single-member constituencies and a ban on corporate campaign donations to individual politicians...
Argentine President Carlos Menem, at a rare meeting with his predecessor, Raul Alfonsin, leader of the opposition Civic Radical Union Party, won support for a constitutional measure lifting the ban on successive presidential terms. The deal canceled a scheduled referendum on the issue, which seemed likely to prove an embarrassing defeat for the Radicals. The reform must be ratified by the Civic Radical Union Party; it is then expected to breeze through the legislature. With a 40% approval rating, 10% ahead of any rival's, Menem is likely to make a bid for a second term...