Word: forbids
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...rights websites and in e-mails, including one Texas State Senator Glenn Hegar received Tuesday morning. Hegar, a Houston-area Republican, is the author of a bill that would allow Texans with concealed weapons permits to leave their guns in their cars at work - something many employers now forbid. The bill is moving through the state legislature and, despite the opposition of the influential Texas Association of Business, may pass thanks to support from another major player, the powerful National Rifle Association (NRA). "There are two types of people who carry guns - those who believe in following...
...last 60 days of the election, which is precisely when voters are paying attention. According to McCain, the problem was that, “these groups often run ads that the candidates themselves disapprove of.” Therefore the ads had to be banned—god forbid we lowly proles raise our voices. After all, in doing so, we might threaten a congressman’s re-election chances, and politicians certainly know how to protect their...
Above all, perhaps, Keret wants to show how complex life gets. He should know: he was born in 1967, the year of the Six Day War, to two Holocaust survivors. His sister is an ultra-orthodox former settler, whose beliefs forbid her to read his work. His brother is the founder of Israel's movement for the legalization of marijuana and a member of the super-left-wing Anarchists Against the World...
...called Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and his principal deputy four times to complain about Iglesias' behavior, inquiring whether he was "up to the job." As the furor has intensified, a Washington watchdog group this week called for a Senate investigation of whether Domenici violated congressional ethics rules, which forbid members from intervening in prosecutions and trials...
...fall in bed with a random person at a party, but deep relationships are way too passé for us. We can do 100 things at once, but have trouble doing one in depth. (If we do only one, people might think we actually care about it, and God forbid that might happen.) Irony is the easiest way of doing something without fear of being judged. Irony is safe, and we like safe.Consider the Frat Pack comedies, which regularly spoon-feed ’80s rock songs to young moviegoers. “The 40-Year-Old Virgin?...