Word: bans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...extremely rare procedure is used to terminate a pregnancy in its last stages, usually if the mother's health is endangered. The President vetoed the ban on the procedure precisely because it did not include a clause for health-endangering situations. He was right to do so. It is a dangerous and delicate thing when the government starts making laws about what procedures doctors can and cannot perform in order to protect a patient's life or health, and this ban clearly was such legislation at its worst. By failing to protect the mother's health the ban effectively placed...
...Despite renewed negotiation efforts, the changing domestic political climate at both ends has rendered the deal almost signed in April beyond reach right now. So they're haggling once again over everything from textiles to telecommunications in search of a workable deal. But in light of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty debacle, the espionage allegations, the competitive concerns of U.S. industry and labor lobbies and the fact that an agreement would go to the Hill in an election year, the current negotiations are probably somewhat hypothetical...
...this argument, at least as long as Bradley is running ahead in New York and New Hampshire. He can't attack Bradley for being too leftist without annoying the party faithful he needs more than ever. Last week Gore scampered from one base camp to the next, promising to ban offshore oil drilling in Florida and California, making his own poverty speech, all quickly scheduled to share the headlines with Bradley's long-planned address. While Gore's speech was delivered in the language of personal responsibility--he would withhold federal funds from states that did not require deadbeat dads...
...think we ought to have zero tolerance for guns in schools. We ought to have more guidance counselors, more psychologists. We out to ban junk guns and Saturday Night specials...
Versity pays students for their notes on 24 Harvard classes, in spite of a longstanding Harvard ban on the sale of lecture notes. For their risk, the note-takers receive about $8 per lecture...