Word: banning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...only object reported missing is a $100 pair of Ray Ban sunglasses...
...decision was a defeat for Mayor Rudolph Giuliani in his fight to ban the November referendum from the ballot...
...regardless of the official ban, at least a dozen publishing houses are cranking out translated copies, which are selling like scallion buns on the street. Chinese authorities may find it hard to suppress that entrepreneurial spirit, but the ban could be just the smoking gun Dan Burton needs to prove collusion between Beijing and the Clinton White House...
Fortunately, no one is yet talking about banning bees (full disclosure here: I am fond of both peanuts and honey), and that's precisely my point. There is just no way to render the world absolutely safe for every child everywhere. Even if schools do institute a ban on peanuts, how do they enforce it? By posting a peanut-sniffing dog at every entrance? And since most children don't outgrow peanut allergies, what happens after graduation? The best way to deal with peanut allergies isn't by outlawing the crunchy little legumes--which are an excellent source of protein...
...cities have been granted a lot of leeway to ban topless dancing in the interests of maintaining decency, and bars have already fought it on freedom-of-speech grounds and lost," says TIME legal correspondent Adam Cohen. "So they needed a new hook." Their breast defense? "Naked bias." Lawyers for the bar argued that the law wrongly distinguished male topless dancing from female. It didn't work, with the high court deferring without comment to this appeals court ruling from last March: "We must recognize that the public reactions to the exhibition of the female breast and the male breast...