Word: barring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...same status as men in Harvard's social scene. As private clubs, these traditional establishments have every right to use their own processes for winnowing the number of members they accept. But, on a campus that preaches and for the most part practices equality, they cannot be permitted to bar almost half of Harvard's students from applying for membership in the first place...
...Restaurant on Mass. Ave. reported to CPD that on April 29 while working, he was assaulted by an intoxicated man. The suspect grabbed the victim by the neck and later kicked him in the stomach and groin area. The suspect is a white male who works in a Cambridge bar...
...right to NOW on the left, can hardly be called partisan. Nor can it be called self-serving. If it had been in effect years ago, I would have paid Social Security tax on much more of my 1995-97 income. And my proposed means test would bar me from collecting much, if any, future pension benefits...
...both should also understand that there are tools that can make the task easier and more effective, chiefly filters that bar access to offensive or dangerous content and monitors that tell you where the browser has been browsing. America Online, despite all the odious get-rich-quick or get-horny-quick e-mail that it can't seem to keep out of my own mailbox, has been particularly effective in helping parents give their children an online experience under the firm guidance of its editors: a "kids-only" AOL account blocks young users from all but full-time-monitored chat...
Many parents don't realize that a simple click on the "history" tab on a browser tool bar will produce a list of links to every site the computer has visited recently. It's true that any canny 13-year-old knows how to delete potentially incriminating evidence from the history files. Already, though, there are several programs available, such as Cyber Snoop (at least the manufacturer doesn't euphemize), that create a tamperproof database--a trail of bread crumbs, as it were--so parents can examine every Web address the computer has visited since the last time Dad checked...