Word: banning
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...anti-gun forces took some energy from public outrage over the shootings. California's assembly approved a bill designed to limit handgun sales. The gun lobby in Colorado had been expecting to get passage of three bills (to loosen restrictions on concealed-weapons permits, to ban local lawsuits against manufacturers and to pre-empt local ordinances on firearms). State legislators quickly withdrew two of them, and Governor Bill Owens promised to veto the third. Earlier in April, Missouri voters defeated a referendum to lift a constitutional ban on concealed weapons. So far this year, New Mexico, Kansas and Nebraska have...
...N.R.A. president Charlton Heston had a cannier sense of public relations, he would knock himself out campaigning to stop the sale of semiautomatic weapons, ban armor-piercing bullets and do all possible to keep firearms away from criminals, children and psychotics. He would legitimize his own case by pre-empting the best ideas of the other side...
...Trade Organization?s settlement of the banana war between the U.S. and Europe, the food fight between the two continental trade giants continues. On Monday, beef was once again served up on the table of disputes as a May 13 deadline approaches for the European Union to lift its ban on hormone-treated beef from the U.S. The latest bone of contention: a report from European Union scientific experts stating that one of six typically used hormones used "has an inherent risk of causing cancer." The response from the U.S. side: baloney. "This is part of a struggle that...
Joseph I. Lin '00Performs violin concerto with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Penn's Social Life After five weeks, the administration lifts alcohol ban--as if anyone was abiding by it in the first place. Springfest We're looking forward to the Violent Femmes, but memories of disasters past keep us wary. Let's keep our fingers crossed. House Formals The Adams Waltz, the Eliot Fete--'tis the season for House formals. Dust off those tuxes and Datamatch printouts. Fools Someone should tell that semi-secret Sorrento Square organization that being annoying is not the same as being funny. The editorial...
...call for more regulation of both Internet gambling and the rapidly expanding Indian casino market. But the odds of implementing these measures are long, to say the least. Four of the commission's nine members are unhappy with the moratorium, which they say would be perceived as a permanent ban on growth. And except in the case of Indian casinos (which are regulated through the Department of the Interior), any resulting regulations would have to be approved by state legislatures -- the very people the commission considered describing as "addicted to the revenue" from state-sanctioned gambling...