Word: bans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...September when the graduate board proposed a 2 a.m. curfew, a ban on kegs and a increase in dues from $50 to $100 a month, the membership balked and the club remained closed...
...three communities with rent control policies--Boston, Brookline and Cambridge--required special enabling legislation from the state government. If the landlords could get the state to ban rent control, they could circumvent the rent control-friendly city governments...
...Hawaiian supreme court ruling that denying marriage licenses to gay couples may violate the equal-protection clause in the state constitution. Sending the case back to the trial court, the supreme court directed the government to show that it has a "compelling" state interest in maintaining the ban--a test it is unlikely to meet. Although the case is now on appeal in a state court in Honolulu, Hawaii will probably rule late this fall that such marriages are permissible. Christian conservatives, in particular, are worried that if gay marriages are allowed in Hawaii, the Full Faith and Credit clause...
...read," she says. One Zyuganov favorite was a book titled Raising Children in the Atheist Manner. Mindful of his nationalist supporters, for whom the Orthodox Church is inextricably linked to Russia's identity, Zyuganov now brags about having read the Bible (twice) and has eliminated the party's ban on religion...
...longer target our homes. Three of the four nuclear states that succeeded the Soviet Union have abandoned nuclear weapons. We are working with the Yeltsin government and Russia's neighbors to keep nuclear materials from terrorists and rogue states, and to realize President Kennedy's dream of a total ban on nuclear testing. The space race has been eclipsed by our joint construction of an international space station...