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...each meant to serve hundreds of students. But installing satellite dishes is difficult and expensive—besides paying for the service, students have to find a south-facing location to mount their dish. Satellite reception is further hampered by University rules, found in the Handbook for Students, which forbid objects from being placed outside of dorm room windows...
...WHAT THEY ARE LOOKING FOR: U.N. resolutions forbid Iraq to develop missiles capable of traveling more than 93 miles. Inspectors are looking for any sign that Iraq is constructing medium-or long-range missiles or hiding a dozen or so Scuds...
...work against the consumer's best interest. "The inherent question is whether people buy the product just because it comes with a free daffodil," Circus says. "When it's a product they wouldn't want or wouldn't buy without [the daffodil], that makes it an improper decision." Heaven forbid that the consumers be allowed to decide this question for themselves. Whatever the rationale, the European Commission has proposed sweeping away this patchwork of national restrictions and replacing them with a uniform set of lighter rules that would require retailers to provide specific details about the promotion, such...
This fall, for example, Monteiro forbid candidates from communicating with the press before official campaigning began, based on an existing rule prohibiting “broadly public” candidacy statements. But council members were able to talk with the press about issues, so in effect, this restriction prevented outsider candidates from communicating with voters. All candidates should be free to announce their intentions whenever they see fit, and the council must revise its bylaws to give everyone this freedom, as well as eliminate the potential for future drastic reinterpretations...
...We’re going to have a lot of smokers standing outside, and we’ll have to watch to make sure that they don’t bring their drinks out with them,” Koole says. Current city ordinances forbid the consumption of alcohol outdoors...