Word: bans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Across from the farmers' market in St. Louis, it has been a slow day. A couple of dozen signatures, maybe a mind or two opened. Or closed. The Greenpeacers take down their banners saying STOP FACTORY FARMS! and BAN FACTORY TRAWLERS! The bus eases away from the curb and rumbles toward Lexington...
...Gloucester, Dorry hears bad news. Under attack by factory-ship interests, the Stevens bill has been weakened. Of the 45 big ships now operating, only the least efficient nine would be bought out of service, partially at taxpayer expense. "What this does," Dorry says, "is institutionalize factory fishing, not ban it. What it doesn't do is deal with overfishing." She is silent for a moment. Then: "No. No, the bus tour wasn't wasted. At least more people know there's a problem. The fight is in Congress now. It's winnable. We're going after them...
...corporate lawyer, Hodges touts tax revenues from gambling as the best way to fund South Carolina's crumbling education system, and grateful video-poker barons have rewarded him with heavy campaign contributions. Beasley has made himself an enemy of the state's gambling interests by calling for a ban on video poker and opposing a referendum on introducing a state lottery...
...which to rid itself of peanuts. Why? So their three-year-old son, who suffers from a severe allergy to peanuts, won't be exposed to peanut butter, peanut oil or even "peanut dust" when he enters kindergarten in the fall of 2000. This demand for a peanut ban has divided the community and placed school officials in a tough spot. Can't they accommodate this child's disability without depriving everyone else of Planters...
...sounds pretty scary," says TIME science writer Mike Lemonick, "but scientists knew that the ban on ozone-killing chemicals that went into effect in 1996 wouldn't show any results for a while. The chemicals released before then will take a while to be cleared from the atmosphere, and until they are they'll keep destroying ozone. The destruction should ease off, with ozone levels rebounding over the next few decades." Meantime, let's hope NASA scientists remembered to pack their...