Word: barring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Salt Wells brothel outside Fallon, a group of buzz-cut Navy buddies are swigging tequila around a blazing fireplace. They narrate the day's maneuvers with swooping hand gestures while a giggling, shirtless young prostitute looks on. She seems unimpressed by the flyboys' classified briefing. At the bar, a middle-aged cowboy quietly raves about a plot to swamp Nevada in methamphetamine ("crank"). The cowboy doesn't want his name used (few people do out here), but he does want the alleged drug ring to know he's on to them. "I have a friend who personally knows the retired...
...years old and in such short supply that students routinely share them. The countertops in the home-economics room are peeled back like popovers, and college guidance is dispensed from a renovated boys' bathroom. And since the school lacks a cafeteria, students troop out at noon to eat at bars, a pizza joint or a gas station, which often means a candy bar and a Coke...
...sign a bill that contains a House provision indexing capital gains to inflation. Clinton also wants an increase in education tax credits and insists that low-income families who qualify for the earned-income tax credit also get a credit for each child. The House would bar them...
...racial discrimination to the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission were roughly the same in 1995 as in 1990--about 29,000. "But the EEOC is certainly not the primary enforcer of employment rights in this country," says H. Candace Gorman, a prominent plaintiff's attorney in Chicago. "The private bar is." And that's because the financial stakes are higher than ever. Thanks, in part, to a 1991 law that permits pain and suffering awards in workplace discrimination cases, lawyers can make millions on a successful class action...
MOSCOW: The recent "Buy Russian" campaign for Kremlin bureaucrats was extended to religion today when the Russian Duma voted to bar any religions from operating in the country unless they have been established there for more than 15 years. Denounced by human rights activists as trampling on Russian constitutional guarantees of freedom of religion, the bill is a boon for other traditional faiths such as Islam and Buddhism. But it's theRussian Orthodox Church that was the driving force behind the move. The church has increasingly seen its hold over Russian souls wrested away by foreign upstarts from Hare Krishnas...