Word: bans
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...came amidst the country’s continued marginalization from the international community—South Africa had been barred from the General Assembly of the United Nations and was not allowed to participate in the Olympics. The South African government also faced other countries’ attempts to ban international trade with the state and it desperately needed loans from the International Monetary Fund...
...deceptive ads with scientists behind bars,” said Grace C. Ross ’83. Ross, who worked on the Nuclear Free Cambridge campaign, said that they had calculated at the time that the defense industry had spent 27 dollars per vote to rally citizens against the ban...
...reputation for competence. Given the quality of Mitt Romney’s and Rudy Giuliani’s platforms, it is slightly puzzling that their journeys through the primaries were so short. Former Governor Romney, for example, supported the creation of a national catastrophic fund, as well as a ban of guns that threaten the police and had a vision for universal health care. He eventually migrated from the center, however, drawing accusations of populism, while a number of myths sank the candidacy of the former mayor of New York...
...curiously, there has not been the same political outcry over naloxone distribution as there has been against other public programs, such as needle exchange, for addicts. So far, there have been no attempts to ban or limit funding for naloxone programs. Says Bigg, who once helped convince a skeptical doctor of their value in a radio debate: "I think people who study it up close realize that you could not have a purer case of a chance for life versus the risk of death...
California Supreme Court •ban on gay marriage is upheld by while previously performed gay marriages are recognized as legal...