Word: bans
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Stager did not issue a flat ban on the raising of funds. Rather, during the life of the Advisory Committee, the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, supported by Stager, required that any approaches for money be cleared through the Dean and the Director of the Museum. This was prudent. If the Museum goals were to be redefined in order to focus them on the museum's central tasks in the University, attempts to raise funds should not be sought primarily or wholly for peripheral projects, binding the Museum to continue its lop-sided program indefinitely into...
President Clinton signed legislation lifting the ban against women serving aboard naval combat vessels. Women will be assigned to three aircraft carriers...
...controversy first began to simmer last July, when Ontario Judge Francis Kovacs banned substantive coverage of Homolka's trial and barred foreign journalists from his courtroom. Even after Homolka was sentenced to only 12 years for the barbaric deaths of two girls, the press could not report the obvious: that she had struck a plea. Canadian journalists who had attended the trial itched to write, as the Post eventually did, about how Leslie Mahaffy, 14, was hacked to bits and encased in concrete blocks, and Kristen French, 15, was held hostage for almost two weeks before her body was deposited...
...harder Canadian officials struggle to hold back the tide, the more ridiculous the battle seems. "People are only talking about Teale because of the ban," says Bob Levin, an American journalist who is an assistant managing editor at the Toronto newsweekly MacLean's. "The ban has backfired." Some Canadian journalists think a review of such restrictions is long overdue. Jim Coyle of the Ottawa Citizen says the ban is "based on the insulting assumption that the public is a pack of morons who would be irretrievably tainted should they know certain facts...
...other hand, a specific ban on abatements would wipe out their pernicious effect, but would also preclude their useful application. For example, a town couldn't help a longtime local company through tough times by easing its tax burden temporarily...