Word: bans
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...plan does not mandate insurance for all adults, whereas the plans put forth by Clinton and Edwards do include mandatory coverage. Clinton and Obama voted to support the U.S.-Mexico border fence, while Edwards and border state Governor Bill Richardson (D-N.M.) oppose its construction. Clinton voted to ban partial-birth abortions, while Obama and Edwards did not. Obama supports merit pay for teachers, the others...
...other side are people who oppose air-drying laundry outside on aesthetic grounds. Increasingly, they have persuaded community and homeowners associations (HOAs) across the U.S. to ban outdoor clotheslines, which they say not only look unsightly but also lower surrounding property values. Those actions, in turn, have sparked a right-to-dry movement that is pressing for legislation to protect the choice to use clotheslines...
...have used clotheslines throughout their lives. Mary Lou Sayer, who is over 85, dried her clothes outside when she was young and hoped to do so again when she moved to a Concord, N.H., retirement village three years ago. She has proposed a change to the community's clothesline ban twice. Her second pitch was voted down unanimously in late October. Her best chance now rests with a bill that state representative Suzanne Harvey plans to introduce in 2008 that would say hanging laundry outside cannot be fully prohibited. "We all have to do at least something to decrease...
...purists" of the movement are so opposed to anything that even hints of approval for abortion that one new coalition of anti-abortion groups took out full-page ads in national newspapers criticizing evangelical leader James Dobson after he applauded the Supreme Court's decision to uphold the ban on partial birth abortions. In their eyes, Dobson, who opposes abortion, had given tacit approval to the "regulated killing of the unborn" by giving the nod to a court decision that recognizes the legality of the procedure in general even as it sets limits to it. And this week in Washington...
...leading foreign diplomats, including U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon, has visited Beirut as part of an intense diplomatic effort to bridge the divide between both parties. France has spearheaded those efforts and, on Monday, French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner was in Beirut for another attempt to strike a deal. But his efforts appeared to be in vain. A visibly frustrated Kouchner blamed unnamed parties for derailing the negotiations. "Everybody was agreed [on the process]. Everybody said they had agreed. Now I'm amazed, France is amazed, that something is stuck, something is blocked, something is derailed, and I would...