Word: crackdowns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...raided every porn moviehouse and bookstore within the combat zone. In one shop they ripped out the minimovie machines, carting them off as evidence. "The cops want to show they're there," said Attorney Morris Goldings, Boston's leading obscenity lawyer, who acquired some 15 new clients in the crackdown. "Every guy knows that one day he is going to be hit." But once busted, few ever suffer conviction. So they thrive...
...ungraded system would not meet Gen Ed credit requirements as they now stand. Students polled said they feared removing a Gen Ed course as popular as Nat Sci 36 from credit eligibility might signify a future crackdown on other "guts" in the Gen Ed program...
...feudally hierarchic side of Mormonism that helps lead to its political conservatism. The impact of revelations depends on one's position in the church: Prophet Kimball's revelations can change all Mormon doctrine (Prophet Wilford Woodruff did just that on the polygamy questions in the 1890s, after a federal crackdown on polygamy sent many prominent Mormons to prison.) The revelations of the head of the Boston stake (or diocese) will affect the stake (in the choice of a branch president, for example), and each individual's revelations are restricted to his or her self and family. "My experience with...
...only person who can do it." For the time being at least, many of India's 600 million people are willing to go along with the Prime Minister. This year's harvest will be good, and prices, thanks to the government's tight money policy and crackdown on black marketeers, are down. Moreover, the government announced last week that the emergency had produced one windfall: voluntary disclosures of "black money" (undeclared and untaxed income) have so far amounted to $1.7 billion. Of that, the government will reap $350 million in taxes-which will just about wipe...
Continuing his crackdown on student-tutor cohabitation, William R. Hutchison, master of Winthrop House, orders Buildings and Ground to reverse the peepholes in all suite doors...