Word: barring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...city that celebrates sin, as of the stroke of midnight on New Year's Eve you can't walk into a bar and light a smoke. In the entire state of California, a fragile plate cracked head-to-toe by the sheer force of political extremes, you can no longer enjoy the leaf in the gin mill of your choice...
...have sat with a cold beer and a Cuban (cigar, not companion) and watched the Dodgers on Spanish-language television. But you walk in now and, sure enough, owner Andres Martinez has posted no-smoking signs. The law is the law, he says dolefully, and it's the bar owner, not the customer, who will pay the fines--starting at $100 and going as high as $7,000--if the butt police appear...
Same story at the trendy Bar Marmont on Sunset, and at nearby Dublin's. An Irish pub without smoke? Stand on a corner in Los Angeles for two hours, and you've got black lung. But having cleared tobacco smoke from every other public space in California, reformers have entered the last refuge. They'll ban alcohol next, and pretty soon California will be a string of juice bars, from Mexico to Oregon...
...mere appearance of bias must be avoided in any arbitration, said Harry Besunder, a member of the New York State Bar Association's Committee on Professional Responsibility...
...Weather Channel: "Painted Faces" Sure, the 24-hr. channel could tout its forecasts. But this inspired campaign wants you to know that "if hell freezes over, you'll hear it here first." In a weather-themed bar, two rabid tube watchers breathlessly await the weekend outlook. The upshot is as clear as a blue sky: "Weather fans, you're not alone...