Word: bans
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...refocused attention on her efforts to wipe out anti-personnel land mines. Last week Pentagon officials lamented that her demise could make it harder to keep a tiny but key portion of the U.S. mine arsenal. While most of the Pentagon grudgingly acceded to President Clinton's broader proposed ban on such mines, the elite Army GREEN BERETS and Navy SEALS are voicing private concerns that the accord the White House wants could strip a lifesaving weapon from their webbed belts. It is the aptly named "pursuit denial munition," a grenade-size explosive that when thrown in the path...
...year which preempts any federal acceptance of same-sex marriage. Last year, ENDA, the Employment Non-Discrimination Act which prohibits job discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, did not pass. If you don't live in Hawaii, where the State Supreme Court ruled that it is unconstitutional to ban same-sex marriage, you are effectively just two roommates living together. In Vermont, same-sex couples are suing for marriage rights, but it is not yet a reality...
Some colleges have decided that the most direct way to combat alcohol abuse is to ban consumption on campus entirely. In 1995, after finishing at the top of The Princeton Review's party-school rankings two years in a row, the University of Rhode Island banned alcohol at all campus social events. Combined with tougher penalties for violations and greater efforts to educate students about responsible drinking, U.R.I. administrators say the new policy has dramatically changed the culture of the school. "For a long time, this community was going through a period of denial," says vice president for student affairs...
STOPPAGE Don't bother looking for Ex-Lax in the next couple of months. The popular laxative was temporarily pulled off shelves by its maker for reformulation. The move anticipates an FDA ban of a key ingredient linked to cancer in animals...
That's true. For a time, the ban on television made me mad for it. At friends' houses, I gazed at Hawaii Five-O in rapture. But then I began to take pleasure from the fact that I was reading David Copperfield while everybody else was taking in The Man from U.N.C.L.E. I found satisfaction in listening to the Mets on the radio instead of watching the telecast, and I could paint my toy soldiers at the same time...