Word: bans
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Wrong. The 30-sec. spot, now airing on KRIS-TV, an NBC affiliate in Corpus Christi, Texas, is a landmark: the first deviation from the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States' self-imposed ban on TV advertising, adopted in 1948. Reaction was swift. The ad "could open the airwaves to a flood of hard-liquor ads," fumed Democratic Congressman Joseph Kennedy II of Massachusetts, who is well aware that his family's fortune was fortified with liquor profits. He has introduced a bill that would not only ban TV ads for hard liquor but also restrict those for beer...
...first stop of The Crimson Ice Cream Tour bucked that trend. Baskin Robbins, a 31-flavor American institution, managed--like the Au Bon Pain down the street--to dodge Harvard Square's ban on fastfood chains...
...Kerrey's first goals was to transform the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee from a political backwater to a one-stop shop for Democratic candidates. To that end, he reversed the committee's ban on soft money, the unrestricted kinds of contributions. Hell, if you're going to fight, you need all the weapons at your disposal. When he took over, there was only one person regularly doing press relations; now there are six. He hired a full-time cartoonist who creates at least one political gibe a day, faxed to thousands of newspapers around the country. And Kerrey insisted...
Although he will not yield on his ban on non-student voting members on the governing board, Epps expressed his willingness to sit on the board...
Harvard disagreed and tried to convince the judge to lift the ban on construction...