Word: barring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Frederick Hitz is investigating whether the officer, at Tamraz's urging, telephoned Fowler in October to confirm that the businessman had helped the agency in the past with information on the Middle East. If that was the case, it would represent a major breach in CIA security regulations, which bar officers from revealing to any outsiders that someone is helping the agency. Intelligence officials also say Tamraz had hired former CIA officers to work in some of his companies, so officials are investigating whether any veterans might have helped Fowler arrange his contacts with the Operations Directorate...
...Clinton White House, which has been seeking to ban the promoting and selling of cigarettes to children. For example, the Administration strongly backs new Food and Drug Administration rules that require smokers up to the age of 27 to show photo ID cards when buying cigarettes. (The regulations bar tobacco sales to anyone under the age of 18.) Said Vice President Gore, who greeted the Liggett deal as a breath of fresh air in a smoke-filled room: "It's about time the tobacco companies told the American people the truth...
That was a lie. I don't think that at all. San Francisco is always going to finish out of the money. I would agree with the general manager of Gates Bar-B-Q, in my hometown, who was quoted in the Kansas City Star as saying that a lot of people on the coast are skinny because they've developed an interest in eating "roots and bark...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: The debate over indecency vs. free speech flared again as the Supreme Court refused to bar a federal law that requires cable TV operators either to block adult entertainment offerings or to air them only late in the evening. Subscriber-only, sex-oriented networks Playboy Television and Spice Entertainment are challenging the law as a violation of their First Amendment rights and had asked that the law not be enforced while a court decision on their lawsuit is pending. The two companies charge that the exorbitant cost of scrambling their programs has led cable operators to restrict adult...
...There's only so much one can give, but I think moving that bar a little further down will help," he adds...