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...were forbidden to raise funds so we couldclose for lack of funds," Gavin said...
...about shoes and freedom to wear what we want. This is America."-- SENIOR AT A HIGH SCHOOL IN TEXAS THAT HAD FORBIDDEN DOC MARTENS-BRAND BOOTS
...didn't look exactly simple at first: he was turned down for membership in a church youth group on the grounds that he was "just too worldly." After graduation he enrolled at Bob Jones College, a Bible boot camp in Tennessee where hand holding was forbidden, and dating was limited to chaperoned chats in a public parlor. Between the rules and the course work, Graham soon found himself on the brink of expulsion and thought about transferring. The legendary Jones warned him about throwing his life away: "At best, all you could amount to would be a poor country Baptist...
...different hobby, ham radio or UFOs maybe, instead of writing itty-bitty novels. Because after The Bridges of Madison County hit the best-seller lists, with its weepy tale of 52-year-old photographer Robert Kincaid and fortyish Iowa farm wife Francesca Johnson meeting and spending four days in forbidden aerobics, then 25 years in noble renunciation, all privacy was gone. Lush-hipped, high-mileage beauties with roses in their teeth and not too much cellulite stared at you moist-eyed from behind self-service gas pumps and supermarket Chardonnay displays. You wondered if you should quickly do some push...
...paper companies worry about recouping investments they will have to make in recycling, but from their viewpoint, the policy could have been worse. The President could have forbidden government purchases of paper whitened by chlorine bleach. Environmentalists charge that chlorine-containing waste chemicals contaminate waterways around paper mills; companies say the pollution is limited. While Clinton did not insist on chlorine-free paper, he did relax the whiteness standard for federal stationery. Companies that offer not-so-bright but eco-friendly paper may find some big customers in Washington...