Word: bans
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...same time meet the conflicting demands of being Senate majority leader. The two jobs work at cross-purposes: G.O.P. hopefuls have to run to the right, which helps explain why Dole took the no-tax pledge in New Hampshire and vowed to help repeal the assault-weapons ban. Majority leaders, meanwhile, have to build links to the party's center to win Senate approval of such measures as the $1 trillion budget that promises some tax cuts but stops short of the $353 billion giveaway favored by Gramm. Candidate Dole's lurch to the right has led him to attempt...
...ants have grown so nasty that some folks argue for a return to chemical warfare. Says Republican Congressman Tom DeLay of Texas, the House majority whip and a former exterminator: "The scientific evidence doesn't justify the mirex ban...
Gates: I'd say that's pretty nonsensical. Let's say you take a market, like the cigarette market, and you ban advertising. Who benefits...
...Romance" "revel in mindless violence and loveless sex," and urged film executives to emphasize family-oriented programming and products. He alsoattacked rap artistsin whose songs "sexual violence is given a catchy tune."Sarah Brady, chair of Handgun Control Inc., retorted that Dole, who supports arepeal of the assault weapons ban, is "completely misguided if he believes that controlling airwaves will solve the problems of crime and violence facing us." Director Oliver Stone accused Dole of "a 90s form of McCarthyism," said that "Killers" was meant "to satirize, not glorify, violence." Undeterred, Dole said today that the impact of entertainment...
Clinton agreed, for the first time in history, to ban vehicular traffic from a two block stretch of Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House. The building is vulnerable to a truck bomb, like that used in Oklahoma, which could injure scores of people and seriously damage the structure. An estimated 26,000 cars and buses will have to be rerouted each...