Word: blanket
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Despite the lack of a blanket ban on the sale of guns. Massachusetts currently has one of the toughest licensing laws of any state in the country. The law requires a license for the possession of all firearms and automatically imposes a mandatory one-year prison sentence for carrying a gun without a license. In 1976, a state-wide referendum calling for stricter regulations failed by more than a two-to-one margin...
...Corporation's decision last Monday to extend the University's blanket bank ban culminated two months of student protest and a heated debate within the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR) which ended when the ACSR voted unanimously against lifting...
Police reported that Belushi's physical trainer had arrived at the hotel early Friday afternoon and found the actor curled naked and unconscious on his bungalow bed. A hotel security guard attempted mouth-to-mouth resuscitation without success. By the time the corpse, covered with a brown blanket, was removed from the hotel, all elements of a Hollywood creep show were in place: stories of a mysterious woman in Belushi's room early that morning; rumors of the star's traveling with a cocaine crowd; paparazzi shouting and shoving and climbing over police cars to catch...
...added, though, that resistance to maintaining the policy collapsed quickly in the course of the committee's discussion and that "no real opposition" to reaffirming that blanket ban existed...
...Corporation asked the committee in January to review the present South Africa bank policy because it said the blanket ban allowd Harvard no discretion to allow ostensibly "humanitarian" loans to the country...