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...Office of Management and Budget is considering revisions in its Circular A-21, which sets the guidelines for appropriate billing of indirect costs. These revisions would disallow reimbursements for first-class travel, alcohol purchases and items relating to the university president's home, according to the subcommittee investigator...
...some legal experts have also begun to talk about an emerging "drug exception" to the Fourth Amendment ban on unreasonable searches and seizures -- a willingness by courts, where drugs are concerned, to permit searches they might otherwise disallow. In recent years, for example, the Supreme Court has allowed expanded use of so-called drug-courier profiles -- descriptions of a smuggler's characteristic behavior and appearance -- as a basis upon which to stop and question suspects, despite complaints that such profiles give police license to stop blacks and Hispanics. It has also upheld the right of police to inspect a drug...
Another possible approach would be to disallow abortions beyond an earlier point in pregnancy, based on the assumption that medical advances permit the fetus to survive outside the womb at an earlier point. A provision of the Missouri law at issue in the Webster case requires doctors to perform tests to determine the viability of the fetus before an abortion can be performed after the 20th week of pregnancy...
DESPITE the overwhelming advantages of a cooperative continental economy, Mulroney should keep in mind the warnings of the agreement's opponents. While the current agreement does not disallow social programs, as some of Mulroney's opponents erroneously charged, it does encourage further talks to reduce government subsidies to business, and cutting these subsidies may endanger such programs. "Government subsidies" could come to mean universal health care...
...Church of Religious Consciousness is easy to belong to. Instead of disallowing things that people enjoy--like ham and cheese sandwiches or BLTs (Judaism), hamburgers on Friday (Catholicism), or meat (Hindu)--the Church will disallow things that nobody like to eat anyway. Spinach, liver, tongue, brussel sprouts, and broccoli-cheese pasta are all on the list of foods that you are forbidden from eating as a member of the Church...