Word: bans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...observers have suggested that networks, through a combination of legal threats and investments, might try to pressure makers to drop the skip buttons. But analysts predict that as competition increases (Microsoft's WebTV satellite service will offer PVR-like features later in the fall), nothing short of an outright ban will prevent someone from offering such an option...
...assault weapons should be banned from manufacture and sale throughout the United States. Such a ban is already in effect in a number of states. Furthermore, a buyback program should be created to focus especially on semiautomatic and multiple-cartridge weapons--the sort that are made to kill other human beings...
...organization should know about the gravity of these issues: it helped found the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, which won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1997 for its work...
...cluster bombs to its international treaty in progress. But, citing the current opposition of the United States to the land mine treaty, among other reasons, she said it would not be feasible at this time. However, Vitagliano did say that "one of the fears is [that] as the mine ban treaty becomes universalized other countries may see cluster bombs as a replacement...
...have a new aesthetic created by the campaigns against land mines and against blinding lasers in 1995, that makes people more confident they can ban the weapons," Arkin said...