Word: bans
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...Contract with America'' is hardly surprising. As for the contract's insistence that the budget can be balanced in five years even if taxes are cut and defense spending is increased, Dole has said diplomatically, ``It would be difficult.'' In recent weeks, Dole has downplayed attempts to repeal the ban on assault weapons, and he appears genuinely repelled by the pain that the contract's welfare reforms could inflict...
...including one requirement that violent felons serve at least 85 percent of their sentenced time. House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt said such a federal mandate runs counter to the GOP promise to give states more power. The crime bills, fourth and fifth in a six-part package, also would ban televisions from federal prison cells. Next item on the GOP list: letting states fund recreation programs with grants originally slated for hiring police. Clinton suggested he may veto that because he is committed to putting 100,000 more cops on the streets...
...play or concerts or hang out with my friends; I just obsess about writing a semi-coherent theory chapter that will enable me to graduate. This is a sorry situation indeed. It must be avoided in the future; Dorksworth's legacy must be destroyed. I would suggest an immediate ban on thesis-writing, with suitable economic safeguards for those vendors of acid-free paper and laser printing who make a living off the hapless seniors...
Several councillors had wanted to amend the ordinance to empower Cambridge police to arrest offenders, to set a 30-day sentence for anyone found guilty of sale or possession of a machete and to ban in addition the possession of the knives...
...full restitution to victims for damages resulting from their crimes. But the next five proposals, which would allow prosecutors to use evidence gathered in illegal searches, drew fire from some Democrats. The most contentious legislation has yet to hit the floor: a bill that would repeal the ban on assault weapons. The GOP leadership, warned by President Clinton that he would veto any attempt to repeal, has shelved discussion on that bill for several weeks...