Word: bans
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...cannot answer some questions. A lot of people are telling us what to do now. I just want to make sure it's not the same people who were flying the plane and crashing who are going to fly the plane again. We should ban banks from risk-taking because society is going to pay the price. This is not the first time. In '83 we paid the price. In '91-'92 we paid the price. They keep their bonuses every time, and every time we bail them out. Now, the fact that things came back or didn't come...
...pair of studies by researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health has found that the ban on marketing cigarettes to children has proved ineffective at curbing tobacco advertisements in non-print media, and that tobacco companies are adding nicotine to chewing tobacco in order to make smokeless tobacco more addictive...
...film, but rather because its intrigues do resemble a higher-stakes version of our own party politics. What makes this case pertinent is that those prosecuting the group have been accused of representing the pro-Islam government, the ruling AK Party, in revenge for a failed court attempt to ban the party this summer for undermining Turkey’s secular government system. For years, secular Turks have battled more Islamic Turks over the direction of their country. The result of this case and any cases that follow could very well dictate the long-term direction of the Turkish state...
...rules also reinstate a ban on U-Haul trucks that was in place...
Arguing that crocodile numbers are booming, Katter has called for a cull. "They're wandering into people's backyards," he says. State Environment Minister Andrew McNamara says numbers have increased only slightly since the ban on hunting was imposed, and that for safety's sake, animals over six-foot-six long are relocated out of urban areas. Queensland crocodile expert Gordon Grigg says culling is futile: "You can never be sure you've got them all, and it risks giving people a false sense of security...