Word: bans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...carousers filed into Arianna Huffington's seminar on "Life After the Welfare State: What Replaces It?" When one participant declared, "Cutting government is the ultimate act of compassion," others sensitively asserted the need for "faith-based charity," at which point Ingraham was so moved she broke her own empathy ban: "It really choked me up," she said. "It's the first time I've seen conservatives really talking about that issue...
Communist parties were banned in 1991, so Zyuganov joined several nationalist organizations and participated in a drive against Yeltsin, the President of Russia. When the ban was lifted in 1992, Zyuganov re-created his party and became chairman of its Central Committee, the post he still holds. He was an early supporter of the 1993 coup against Yeltsin, although he eventually disavowed violence. Today he leads a party of more than 500,000 members and a political machine with branches in every region of Russia...
...week after CompuServe blocked access to certain sexually explicit newsgroups, German authorities say that company officials decided on their own which newsgroups to ban. German prosecutors denied claims by CompuServe that the government told the firm which newsgroups to block and reiterated that they never explicitly threatened CompuServe with criminal charges if they did not comply. CompuServe last week had blocked access to some 200 newsgroups on Usenet, a portion of the Internet, touching off a storm of speculation that online services might be held accountable anywhere in the world where material available on the service is considered illegal...
...outside the House, particularly the lobbyists who had bankrolled the revolution and expected to be rewarded for it. The National Rifle Association, for instance, contributed $1,442,519 to Republicans in the last election cycle. But when they pushed last spring for an early repeal of the assault-weapons ban, Gingrich put them off, explaining that he needed to build more momentum to create the impression of power...
...made the order in response to complaints from pilots who have been momentarily blinded as light beams flash through their cockpits. The problem has accelerated in the past two years as a number of casinos began showing nightly laser light shows. FDA compliance official Lillian J. Gill said the ban affects only Las Vegas, but could be extended to other areas where outdoor laser light shows impair airplane pilots...