Search Details

Word: bans (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...letter read to the Undergraduate Council last night, Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57 informed the body that he would not lift a ban on kegs in freshman dorms, as the council had asked him to do only three weeks...

Author: By Joseph R. Palmore, | Title: College Rejects Council's Plea for End to Keg Ban | 3/7/1988 | See Source »

LAST week, the South African government instituted a ban on the activities of 17 political protest groups, a move that the media has called one of the strictest measures ever imposed. The ban will hit the United Democratic Front--an umbrella organization which represents over 600 community groups and labor unions--the hardest...

Author: By Sharmian L. White, | Title: Reagan's Hypocrisy in S. Africa | 3/5/1988 | See Source »

Some merchandisers are glad to see the smoking ordinance in effect. "The existence of the ordinance is a great excuse for people who like to ban smoking. Take a jeweler, for instance. He doesn't want smoke on the jewels, but he doesn't want to ask someone to put out a cigarrette because they might leave. This way they can blame it on the city," he says...

Author: By Katherine E. Bliss, | Title: Smoking: Policy and Politics | 3/4/1988 | See Source »

Among those amendments passing was a provision by Voke striking language in the bill that some feared would eliminate a state ban on allowing doctors to bill Blue Shield patients for more than the insurer allowed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Massachusetts House Passes Health Bill In Precedent-Setting Boost for Dukakis | 3/1/1988 | See Source »

...showdown had all the breathless drama that readers of the tabloid New York $ Post (circ. 480,000) have come to expect. Australian-born Media Baron Rupert Murdoch, selling the Post to comply with a federal ban on owning a newspaper and broadcast station in the same city, had threatened to shut down the paper unless unions agreed to $24 million in cost reductions. Murdoch said he needed the cuts to complete the sale of the paper to New York Real Estate Developer Peter Kalikow for $37 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Extra: Post Saved! | 2/29/1988 | See Source »

Previous | 56 | 57 | 58 | 59 | 60 | 61 | 62 | 63 | 64 | 65 | 66 | 67 | 68 | 69 | 70 | 71 | 72 | 73 | 74 | 75 | 76 | Next