Word: clamp
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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BEYOND FUZZY DICE Here's a dangerous idea for the upwardly mobile commuter: Ingenious Technologies' $40 PowerDesk platform lets you clamp a laptop to your car's steering wheel...
...this flurry of activity is the sign of things to come, or if it is a dying gasp by a publication on its last legs, I decide to send feelers out far and wide. Soon I realize that it may be difficult to track down someone from the typically clamp-mouthed organization who will talk to an editor from The Crimson, the publication that has historically been the Lampoon's arch-rival...
...unfairly claims their products are dangerous to eat. Agricultural lobbyists argued for these laws after apple growers saw their sales plummet following a 60 Minutes report that Alar, a chemical used in the apple industry, may cause cancer. The threat of libel, First Amendment advocates fear, could put a clamp on public debate of legitimate health concerns, especially as food producers explore new agricultural techniques such as irradiation, genetic engineering and fertilizers made out of recycled sewage. The first major legal test of the food-disparagement laws will be a Texas lawsuit, in which a group of cattle ranchers have...
...hard not to think that Anderson has made a conscious decision to clamp down on information about the Reubens show, considering how he clammed up. Whether the directive came from Reubens himself or from inside Carsey-Werner, it seems there is still fear about how the public and its guardians, network television, will feel about returning the one-time pop icon to the mainstream...
There probably is not much that can or should be done about this. Surely the Dean of Students shouldn't clamp down on new student activities; those activities are the lifeblood of this campus and they often change people's lives...