Word: gagged
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...particular, she pointed to Fried'sopposition to the Civil Rights Act of 1991, to"home-rule" powers of communities independent ofMassachusetts and to his involvement in theimposition of the "gag rule" that prevents doctorsand health professionals from advising women aboutabortion...
...been struggling through gigs in small venues for years. He is about to make his first run on the comedians' Big Time--Vegas. He follows in the over-sized footsteps of his father, played by comic icon Jerry Lewis, who is certainly not typecast as an aging gag...
Right now, however, the clearest loser may be the FCC itself. Any decision-from blanket exoneration to convening a hearing-is likely to draw fire. In its zeal to restrain public comment on the case, the commission in December issued a sweeping gag order-so extensive that it had the perverse effect of stirring more attention and igniting criticism of the FCC's self-conscious handling of the case. In a scathing critique, James Quello, a veteran commissioner, even noted that the fcc's general counsel told commission staffers they could go to an nbc Christmas party...
...Philosophically we don't see ourselves as Yaleemployees," said Jim D. McCambridge, a member ofboth GAG and GAU. "We see ourselves as studentsand student-teachers. The money we receive forteaching sections or grading papers is notrecompense. It's not a salary. It's a fellowship...
...GAG and GAU have attracted fewer than 40members, according to McCambridge, a sixth-yearstudent of applied physics...