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...potential solution seems to be gaining support. Last week President Clinton, in a speech to the Conference on the Family and the Media in Nashville, Tennessee, endorsed the V chip (for antiviolence chip), a technology that would allow parents to lock out programs previously identified as having a certain level of violence. A V-chip provision was included in the telecommunications bill passed by the Senate last month. Although the House Commerce Committee initially rejected a V-chip provision, the idea is gaining support in the House, which is about to reconsider the measure...
...professor whom Johnson refused to name arrived at the pool at roughly 4:30 p.m. He left his clothes in a locker that he believed to have secured with a combination lock...
Although the combination lock was still on the number that the professor had left it, $1,000 was missing from the wallet...
...fact, it was during a lock-out before my third Justice section during which I realized that my stair-phobia had to end immediately. I looked around the empty Sever Quad, and began to crutch up the six main stairs. Mental power and coordination failing about halfway through, I fell forward on my face...
...Democrats in Congress, themselves supported by a corrupt incumbent-protection system, managed to remain entrenched despite the onslaught. Alarmed by Bill Clinton's fluke victory in 1992, Republicans redoubled their organizing efforts. Richly rewarded in 1994, conservatives were elated after breaking the Demcorats' lock on the House of Representatives. And having finally broken into the citadel, the Republicans are now resorting to the old Nixon playbook to ensure that they never have to leave again...