Word: bans
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...lifelong hunter and now a professional conservationist, I read with interest your article on states' efforts to ban some deplorable hunting practices [ENVIRONMENT, Oct. 28]. My father, grandfathers and uncle instilled in me a hunting ethic: respect for wildlife and habitat, fair chase, safety and reverence for the bounty and wonder of nature. Individuals involved with bear baiting, hounding and same-day, airborne hunting are not true hunters. Shame on them for their vicious slaughter of wildlife! But shame on us, the upstanding hunters, too for not pursuing these individuals. The hunting community should be the leading voice calling...
...most closely watched electoral contests last week was not between partisan rivals but over the future of affirmative action programs in California. Proposition 209 on the California state ballot gave voters the opportunity to ban preferences based on race and gender in public education and in state business dealings such as hiring and business contracts. It passed by a healthy majority--54 percent of the California electorate supported...
...Tobacco Co. proposed eliminating "soft money" contributions--the unlimited donations to the national and state parties that pay for everything from negative ads to get-out-the-vote drives. He reiterated his support for the only piece of legislation around, the McCain-Feingold bill, that would ban soft money, as well as set voluntary spending limits for House and Senate races, grant free TV time to candidates who accept those limits, ban or severely limit pac money. And Clinton now wants to ban contributions from non-U.S. citizens...
...struck a deal with Paramount Pictures--in writing--that Hard Copy would no longer cover him, or he'd boycott Paramount's other, puffier show, Entertainment Tonight. The deal lasted six months. Then Hard Copy did a story on Clooney's girlfriend Celine Balidran. The actor quickly imposed a ban on ET and spoke about it publicly, even berating Paramount executive Frank Kelly for making the deal at all. "A so-called news format show will agree that they will not be covering me in any future stories, if I do his other show," his letter to ET said...
...Please ban manifestos," reads one. "Down with Bromobenzene Boy," says another...