Word: bans
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...market his essential nature when he was so busy repackaging it. By the time he had dispensed with Gramm and the rest, he had abandoned his long-standing support for affirmative action and taken a much harder line on illegal immigration. He had led the fight to repeal the ban on assault weapons, then shifted positions a year later. He had morphed into a movie critic, of films he hadn't seen. He had called Steve Forbes' flat tax "snake oil" in February but by August had become a born-again supply-sider. "I'm willing to be another Ronald...
...Clinton had said; something had to be done to lure or push them into productive work; the bill at hand was the best and possibly last chance the President would get to reform it. Yes, it contained very objectionable features: a sharp cut in food stamps and a ban on many social services to legal immigrants. But the President could in conscience sign the bill while decrying those features and pledging to work to revise them. This was the substance of Hillary's advice...
...vote on Question One would also ban cruel, painful traps that catch an animal by gripping any part of it rather than by confining it whole, as a cage does. Most of the traps that would be banned are steel-jaw and rubber-jaw leghold traps, both of which crush the limbs of animals they catch. Leghold traps pose a serious danger to household pets as well as the animals trappers mean to catch. "For every target animal, there are two to three untargeted animals that are trapped," says Aaron Medlock, legislative policy analyst for the Humane Society...
...addition to reducing special interests' power on the Fisheries and Wildlife Board and banning cruel traps, Question One would ban the use of hunting dogs to hunt bears or bobcats. Hounding, as this practice is called, "is the moral and sporting equivalent of shooting a caged animal," according to some state legislators who support Question One. Dogs with radio collars corner their prey, allowing the hunter effortlessly to locate and shoot the helpless animal...
...hunting dog. Odds do favor the hunting dogs when they "overtake, maul, and kill cubs and kittens," which they do often. Currently Massachusetts law permits hounding for training purposes, leading some hunters to stalk the same bear or bobcat for months before finally killing it. Several states already ban hounding, and three others will consider banning it this Tuesday...