Word: bans
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...city ordinance passed in 1991 takes effect April 10, and City Manager Robert W. Healy will begin enforcing the ban on the city's 52 billboards...
...Clinton Administration came out against a proposed constitutional amendment that would ban desecration of the flag, arguing that the offense caused by such an infrequent event does not justify amending the Bill of Rights. Assistant Attorney General Walter Dellinger told a Senate Judiciary Committee panel today that tampering with the Constitution over the issue was unwise "in the absence of any meaningful evidence that the flag is in danger of losing its symbolic value." But Judiciary chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) said a 1989 Supreme Court decision knocking down state anti-desecration laws "has given us no choice...
Philip Morris Inc. said it would "voluntarily" remove cigarette ads on billboards in baseball, basketball, football and hockey stadiums and arenas after the Justice Department said they circumvent the 24-year-old ban on televised cigarette advertising. Justice said the Marlboro manufacturer's signs had appeared prominently in televised sports coverage in 14 football stadiums, 14 baseball parks and five basketball arenas. Philip-Morris denied that a threatened civil suit over the matter had forced its hand...
TIME: The manufacturer with the largest installed base. Gates: Installed market share, totally. So let's have an absolute ban. You may never talk about new products in advance. But people do talk about their plans. You know, it's this damn free-speech thing. It's well established that communications is valuable for the efficiency of marketplaces. That's all procompetitive stuff. This assumes that you like capitalism...
...improbability. If it's he who benefits from a pro-choice strategy, Dole will probably coast to the nomination. If Wilson's the beneficiary, however, Dole could face real trouble. All that seems certain now is this: with House Republicans readying numerous pro-life bills, including a possible ban on the abortion drug RU 486, the question of choice could at least cause major turmoil in the G.O.P.'s 1996 presidential politics. "An abortion-rights strategy might not work for us, or for Wilson either," says Stone. "But roiling the process in the service of a good cause could compensate...