Word: objection
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...night, the FCC satisfied few interested parties. Paul McGeady, general counsel for Morality in Media, complained that the decision will open the floodgates to post- midnight smut: "There's no reason that raunch-radio persons won't become raunch-television persons." Broadcasters and civil libertarians, meanwhile, continue to object that the commission's definition of indecency is distressingly vague. Most network and local station officials insist that their standard on what is permissible will not change because of the ruling. Still, it could open the way for more explicit radio conversation in the wee hours, more uncut movies on post...
...senior's best weapons against the Lynah lynch mob were his crucial saves. Some he dived on. Others he kicked out to stop several Cornell attacks. By the third period, the jeers ceased. So did the chants. And no one dared to throw another object at Devin. He blocked everything that came...
...second period was a scoreless deadlock with D'Allesio (who finished with 30 saves) fighting off several Crimson flurries. Meanwhile, Devin's main distraction came when a Cornell fan threw an object better suited to the bedroom onto the ice. Devin made the mistake of tossing the item back into the stands, only to have it thrown right back...
Here the movie loosens up. Margaret starts hanging out with the con men, ostensibly to make them the object of another book. In reality, she's getting illicit kicks out of their scams...
...discipline of colleges and universities is in general contrived, not for the benefit of the students, but for the interest, or more properly speaking, for the ease of the master. Its object is, in all cases, to maintain the authority of the master, and whether he neglects or performs his duty, to oblige the students in all cases, to behave to him as if he has performed it with the greatest diligence and ability...