Word: harassement
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...authorities," says Longilo Miranda, 18, a worker from southern Mexico. He lives with his father in a scrap-wood lean-to. Marjorie Gaines, a city-council member in Encinitas, an upscale seaside community that includes some of the encampments, charges that undocumented workers litter, breed disease, commit crimes and harass whites. Gaines claims that drunk aliens burned down a local convenience store after the owner refused to sell them liquor. "These are border toughs," she says...
...months after Massachusetts put its parental-consent law into effect in 1981, 1 of every 3 teenage abortions was done out of state, while those within the state dropped 43%. Former Superior Court Judge Paul Garrity, who is pro-life by sentiment, feels that the law exists to "harass these kids...
...price of helmets -- typically $20 to $80 -- may cut into the sport's appeal by increasing its cost. The Maryland law was written by county councilman Charles Feaga, who was disturbed by the deaths of three local children in bicycling accidents. Insists Feaga: "We did not do this to harass children or adults. It's like passengers wearing seat belts. It's for their own good...
Although the former ruler is legally entitled to communicate with the outside world, U.S. officials contend that he is intimidating witnesses who may be called to testify against him and is urging followers to harass the U.S.-backed government of President Guillermo Endara. "He's saying such things as our case against him is weak and that he will return once he gets off," says a Bush Administration official. "That scares an awful lot of people. He's also running a faction of the opposition, and his objective is to provoke as much instability as he can. Obviously, that...
...cure. Nowhere is the First Amendment more imperiled than on college campuses. In the past two years nearly a dozen schools have cobbled together policies outlawing insulting and demeaning speech. At the University of Connecticut students may be expelled if they use "derogatory references" or "fighting words" to harass anyone face to face. Yet if such bans succeed in suppressing obnoxious impulses, they merely drive them underground -- along with many ideas that deserve to be aired, if only to kindle a more heated debate...