Word: outlaw
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...still regarded as different from other crimes. The worst that is said about someone whose home is burglarized after the door was left unlocked is that the victim was careless. With rape the all-too-common impulse remains to impugn the victim's moral character. Courts have come to outlaw testimony about a rape victim's sexual history unless it can be shown that the evidence has a direct bearing on the assault in question, but there are no such restrictions on the press. In the Palm Beach incident, it may be too late to repair the damage from having...
AALARM tells us it is just trying to further the cause of rational discourse. But in a recent poster, AALARM cited questionable statistics to indicate that most Americans believed that non-heterosexual sex should be outlawed. One of the most basic assumptions of "rational discourse" is that you don't try to outlaw your opponents. It's that simple. AALARM claims they are being oppressed, and in the same breath they want to outlaw those with whom they disagree...
...United Nations may be able at last to fulfill the hopes of its founders as a mechanism for collective security. The gulf crisis, under Bush's masterful organization, brought together an extraordinary new coalition, including the U.S., the Soviet Union, Egypt, Syria and 24 other nations, to confront an outlaw state...
...Price Waterhouse for $6.5 million, accusing the accountants of providing him with bad investment advice on tax breaks. (The firm denies the charge.) But Nelson's style has not been cramped by financial problems. Last week he said he will embark on a new satellite-TV venture called the Outlaw Music Channel. He also plans to put out a new album. His suggested title: The IRS Tapes...
...Jewish businesses. The pork law was one of four concessions the government made to the small ultra-Orthodox Agudat Israel party last week in return for a coalition agreement. Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir also promised to impose further restrictions on abortion, curb public transportation on the Sabbath, and outlaw certain forms of advertising deemed obscene by religious leaders...