Word: outlaw
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Rappers aren't the first pop stars to cross from outlaw poses to real bloodletting. Sid Vicious of the Sex Pistols stabbed his girlfriend to death. Squeaky Claudine Longet, a vanilla songstress of the '60s and '70s, shot her boyfriend, a killing that she called accidental and a jury called criminally negligent homicide. But for the most part singers, even the ones who like to pal with mobsters, have been content to leave gunplay to the pros. Not gangsta rappers. In a world where it can seem as if everybody's "strapped" -- meaning armed -- the rapper Spice 1 bragged...
...example, does this law outlaw picketing in front of a clinic? After all, women may be forced to walk around picketers. Will a person who steps in front of a woman to hand her a leaflet be considered in violation...
From the reaction in the environmental community last week, one would have thought Bill Clinton was about to outlaw offshore oil drilling. In fact, all he wants to change is the way the government buys its stationery, all $20 billion of it. The President plans this week to order federal agencies to purchase only paper with at least 20% of the content made from recycled trash by 1994. He wants the recycled content to be 30% by 1998. Allen Hershkowitz, recycling chief of the Natural Resources Defense Council, hails the move as "the most important decision in recycling history...
...full-page ad that ran in yesterday's New York Times, the Animal Welfare Institute dubbed Brundtland "the architect of Norway's outlaw whaling policy" and called for President Clinton to impose strict economic sanctions on Norway...
Despite the International Whaling Commission's recent 18-6 vote to outlaw commercial whaling, Norway's commercial and pirate fishers have since continued to hunt...