Word: bans
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...what they got. Most weeks Turner and Hubbard put on jackets with slogans such as UP WITH HOPE, DOWN WITH DOPE and joined other demonstrators on streets where the heaviest dealing happened. Stansbury got the town council to designate "downtown" Taylor as a historic district, which meant a ban on the public consumption of alcohol. The group even persuaded the Texas National Guard to bulldoze 48 worn-out buildings near the railroad tracks that had become weekend squats for drug dealers and their customers, who used to come in by car and train. Taylor these days is more like...
...second, televised spot informs Iowa voters. The Indiana senator, who says he believes in Americans' rights to own a gun "for self-protection, to hunt and to collect," stresses that he was the only member of Congress running for the nomination to have opposed the 1994 assault weapons ban vetoed by President Clinton. The ad concludes: "There is no right to sweep a playground with an assault weapon...
METROPOLITAN SMOKERS ARE A FORlorn lot these days. As more cities ban cigarettes in public places, smokers are altering every daily habit but the one they most crave. They take lunch at the restaurant bar because only there can they enjoy a quick stick of nicotine for dessert. They dash from their seats at the football stadium to the rest-room, missing the play of the day for the puff of the moment. Shivering in shirtsleeves outside their office complexes, they increase the risk that they will succumb not to emphysema but to chilblains...
...most dramatic and far-reaching attempt yet to restrict the free flow of information online. CompuServe says the ban is only temporary, and it is looking for legal and technical ways to get around the problem. Says a spokesman: "It wasn't us deciding what's naughty and nice...
President Clinton vetoed a $265 billion defense authorization bill that would have mandated policies he opposes. Among them: the deployment of a Star Wars-like anti-missile system, a ban on most abortions at overseas military hospitals and the discharge of service personnel who test hiv positive. But the military will continue to operate because the $243 billion defense appropriations bill that funds the Defense Department has already been signed by the President...