Word: bans
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...risen to $19,100 a year--still $3,100 below their level in 1983, but too rich for Seaboard's blood. Guymon, by contrast, promised low-wage, nonunion labor. Also, Seaboard had decided it wanted to raise its own hogs for slaughter, not just buy them from farmers. Minnesota banned corporate hog farms. Oklahoma had had a similar ban but had repealed it before Seaboard came along...
When NEWT GINGRICH and his self-proclaimed revolutionaries took power after the 1994 elections, they passed the so-called gift ban, a deliberately draconian law that prohibits members of Congress and their staffs from accepting gifts of any value--even a cup of coffee--from lobbyists, journalists and contributors. Another reform: Gingrich placed six-year term limits on all committee chairmen. But in the days since Newt announced his resignation, his presumptive heir, BOB LIVINGSTON of Louisiana, has been peppered with furtive requests from fellow Republicans who want to turn back the reform clock. The total gift ban, they argue...
...probably best to take the money and run. In a unanimous decision, 46 states (the remaining four have already reached individual agreements) have joined a $206 billion settlement with the Big Five cigarette makers, signing away their right to sue in exchange for educational and smoking-cessation programs, a ban on cartoon camels and other kid-friendly ads -- and, of course, the money...
...involves human embryos--leading both the Johns Hopkins and Wisconsin groups to seek funding from Geron Corp., a biotech firm based in Menlo Park, Calif. But staying within the letter of the law has not saved the scientists from attack. Biotechnology critic Jeremy Rifkin petitioned Congress last week to ban all privately funded research into embryonic stem cells so that there can be a "full investigation of the profound long-term social and ethical implications of the technology." Right-to-life activists chimed in as well. The stem cells were taken from potential human beings, says Judie Brown, president...
...requires the sort of support only the government can provide. "I'm convinced that there will be therapies based on these cells in my lifetime," says Wisconsin's Thomson. "But when that occurs will depend heavily on whether there is public involvement." Given the chances of overturning the funding ban in today's political climate, it is more likely to be later than earlier...