Word: forbids
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...staff member in Dallas with ample vote-counting skills as former executive director of the New Hampshire State Democratic Party, estimates that "we can be 4% or 5% of the vote in a given district or state." Although the group has applied for a tax-exempt status that would forbid blatant politicking, it may publicize the extent to which a given politician's platform conforms to its beliefs. Realistically, UWSA has a decent chance of tipping elections in between two and three dozen districts. Says Henson, the Texas volunteer: "We are not a very old organization. ((But)) we will...
...possess them under most circumstances. Wisconsin Democrat Herb Kohl, the sponsor of the measure, had the best argument for the ban: "A gunshot is the leading cause of death for both black and white teenage boys in America." Later that night, the Senate voted 51 to 49 to forbid the manufacture, sale and future possession of 19 models of semiautomatic assault weapons and their copycats, including the AK-47 and the Intratec TEC-9, favorites of gang bangers everywhere...
Water agencies want the revised Safe Water Act to make the EPA take such calculations into account when imposing rules, and to forbid the U.S. government to issue standards without supplying the money it takes to meet them -- a position the National Governors' Association has seconded. A 1991 study showed that the cost of meeting environmental mandates will eat up more than 23% of the budget of Columbus, Ohio, by the year 2000 -- and that assumes no new regulations between now and then. In many cities, the costs of environmental laws will soon exceed those of police and fire protection...
...might surprise you to hear that I don't exactly associate myself with such a stereotype either. So, what was the lure of the magazine, then? I mean, heaven forbid that any liberal would voluntarily work on such a publication. In a word: experience. Editing a nationally distributed publication was certainly a step up from editing a high school yearbook. Not many people can say that they have helped produce a marketed magazine from scratch...
...leave. If Harvard were a totem pole, Expos faculty would be on the part that is under the ground, but it is still the Harvard totem pole. It's all downhill from here. The thought of having to teach more students for less money at a place like (God forbid!) Boston College causes the bile to rise. And guess who becomes the chief focus of all that anger...