Word: bans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Chirac, whose decision was accompanied by a pledge to sign the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty that is due to be completed late next year, justified his decision to resume testing entirely on technical and scientific grounds. His predecessor Francois Mitterrand, he explained, had interrupted a critical series of tests "a little too early" by declaring a moratorium in April 1992. In order to ensure the reliability of its nuclear deterrent, said Chirac, France had no choice but to complete its "experimental program...
...bars. Figuring that it makes no sense to use taxpayer dollars to help criminals pump up, several states have got rid of prison body-building equipment. Others have begun charging inmates for medications and infirmary visits that used to be free. One of the most popular restrictions is a ban on popular in-cell possessions like the one now in effect in Mississippi, where convicts are forbidden to have their own televisions, record players, radios or computers...
...would forbid such things as premium cable channels and R- or X-rated movies. Its sponsor, Representative Dick Zimmer of New Jersey, is also pushing for a law that would reach the nation's 959,000 state prisoners by denying federal prison money to any state that did not ban such things as in-cell TVs and coffee makers, body-building equipment and any food better than that served to U.S. soldiers...
...variety of options to keep simmering lockups from exploding. That need is especially strong now that the increasingly popular practice of imposing mandatory sentences, a response to public anger over inadequate prison terms, is making it harder to offer time off as a reward for good behavior. To ban such things as TV and recreation as well, warns warden Thomas McKinney of the Alfred Hughes state prison unit in Gatesville, Texas, would "take away one of our best management tools...
...Waxman, referring to the placement of his boss's picture under the ashtray. "That epitomizes their philosophy: 'Those Democrats didn't know anything, and if they're against smoking we'll be for it and blow smoke in their faces.' " Senator Frank Lautenberg, who once successfully pushed to ban smoking in all facilities that receive federal funds and that serve children, now has to make his way to his Capitol Hill office past small groups of Republican aides lighting up with impunity in the hallway. To him, it's a partisan issue. "I can smell it," he says...