Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard adopted a University-wide bill that formally prohibits discrimination by any of its affiliates on numerous bases, including sexual orientation, political beliefs, and physical disability. The legislation, approved by the seven-man governing Corporation, prohibits all University affiliates from discriminating against other members of the Harvard community except on the basis of individual ability to contribute to institutional objectives...
Everyone, that is, except Seth Farber...
Harvard adopted a University-wide bill that formally prohibits discrimination by any of its affiliates on numerous bases, including sexual orientation, political beliefs, and physical disability. The legislation, approved by the seven-man governing Corporation, prohibits all University affiliates from discriminating against other members of the Harvard community except on the basis of individual ability to contribute to institutional objectives...
Although MAC sales are now regulated, the Government can do little about the thousands of guns sold under the old classification. Declaring that the MAC "serves no purpose except to kill people," Democratic Congressman Robert Torricelli of New Jersey has introduced legislation that would make it a crime to possess a readily convertible firearm such as the MAC-10. The National Rifle Association considers such legislation a restriction of constitutional rights, but groups like the National Coalition to Ban Handguns see it as imperative. Says the coalition's executive director Michael Beard: "There's no legitimate sporting grounds...
...buildup, the televised picking of the winning numbers could only have been a trifle anticlimactic. When a machine built of suction tubes and a transparent box full of numbered plastic balls picked the winning combination --14, 17, 22, 23, 30, 47--nothing happened to almost the entire audience except the abrupt popping of their balloons. The holders of the three winning tickets could not be identified for several days...