Word: gagged
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From his very first day in office, Clinton has worked to promote freedom of choice for women. He repealed the "gag rule" that restricted abortion counseling at federally funded family planning clinics. The Republicans have threatened to reinstate the "gag rule" in their "Contract with American." The president repealed the Mexico City policy that banned funding to international organizations that promoted comprehensive family planning, and signed the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act to ensure that women and their doctors can enter clinics without fearing intimidation and violence. And the Department of Health and Human Services, headed by Secretary...
...fringe cultures. Both mocked and feared, most accounts are ultimately sympathetic and advocate their vindication. But Larry Shue's The Nerd is an exception. The play's nemesis terrorizes the characters for two acts. (I was about ready to round up a posse from the audience and bind and gag him.) As a comedy of manners, The Nerd show-cases various quirks and idiosyncrasies possessed by different classes. Everyone is weird, the play seems to say. Well, yes, but not everyone exaggerates their weirdness and flings it in others' faces...
...this day, lawyers for both sides have little to say, Judge Ito, bitter over news leaks to the Los Angeles Times, is considering a gag order on attorneys...
...good bet that this Carrey -- the ventriloquist who wonders poignantly if he has lost his own voice -- is a bit of a gag too. The Canadian comic, 32, has been having too good a time lately to search for the Inner Jim. And so has anyone who has seen Carrey inhabit dozens of roles on Fox's prime-time skitcom In Living Color or commandeer the big screen in last winter's smash Ace Ventura Pet Detective. That rowdy farce, cagily directed by Tom Shadyac, earned $72 million at the domestic box office. Coupled with big expectations for Carrey...
Though he is presumed to support abortion rights, for instance, Breyer seems unlikely to defend them as vigorously as Blackmun, who wrote Roe v. Wade. In 1990 Breyer rejected a Bush Administration "gag rule" that would have prevented the staff at federally supported family-planning clinics from even mentioning abortion. But a year earlier he dissented from a ruling that . granted a new hearing on the burdens imposed by a law requiring that minors notify both parents before undergoing an abortion. Accordingly, abortion- rights groups are viewing him with some trepidation...