Word: bans
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...have some financial concerns of its own. According to a recent undergraduate study, halogen floor lamps cost the University some $156,000 per year and use up 40 percent of the energy budget. We hope that this financial disincentive will not be the basis for any preemptive halogen ban. Students need light, and the present alternatives to halogens will not suffice...
...that the politicians who would have to rewrite the laws have the greatest interest in not changing them. Arizona Republican John McCain and Wisconsin Democrat Russ Feingold have been hollering in the wilderness for two years, trying to persuade their fellow Senators to clean up the system. They would ban the unlimited soft-money contributions that both parties depend on (more than $250 million, a historic record, last year) and reward candidates who abide by voluntary spending limits...
...ORLEANS INSPECTORS Big question in the Big Easy: Any way to enforce the city's ban on renting to transients...
...Sniffle sufferers may have to forsake the popular antihistamine SELDANE--which doesn't make you sleepy. The fda may ban the drug because it can cause abnormal heart rhythms--even death--when taken with certain antibiotics and antifungals...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Supreme Court Justices seemed deeply doubtful about a proposal allowing assisted suicide as the first day of arguments began. "You're asking us in effect to declare unconstitutional the laws (banning assisted suicide) in 50 states," Justice Anthony Kennedy told one lawyer. And Justice Sandra Day O'Connor noted that if they declare it a right and allow states to set regulations, "It would result in a flow of cases through the court system for Heaven knows how long." Opponents of assisted suicide paint a scenario in which terminally-ill people are pressured to end their lives, even...