Word: outlawing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ninety-Two in the Shade, the joke is simpler and more deadly. After a wretched drug trip, young Tom Skelton goes home to Key West and decides to break in as a professional fishing guide. He copies the angling style of an old outlaw named Nichol Dance, who was run out of Kentucky for killing a man and who can tell where the permit will run long before the fish appear-at least when he is not too drunk to speak. One day he offers Skelton his bookings; he has killed another man, he claims, and will soon...
...brutal stomping at the end of his relationship with them. Although the means tended toward violence, the end result of this gonzo journalistic venture was a full and objective portrayal of the life style that Thompson compiled in "Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga of the Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs...
...torture campaign rolling, Amnesty is seeking a million signatures to a petition drawn from Article Five of the U.N.'s Universal Declaration of Human Rights: "No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment." The petition urges the U.N. to "immediately outlaw the torture of prisoners throughout the world...
...Outlaw Cell. Benditt then turned his attention to post-mortem examinations of human atherosclerotic plaques, which look like lumps on the insides of the arteries. His research revealed that the cells forming the plaque, while genetically identical to each other, were different from the cells in the arterial wall. Thus his finding suggests that abnormal cells may reproduce themselves to form plaque, just as outlaw cells can duplicate themselves to form tumors...
Right now there are five bills before Congress that would outlaw sex discrimination in lending. The state of Washington this year adopted such a measure, and at least four other state legislatures are considering similar ones. In mid-May, the National Organization for Women (NOW) and two other rights groups petitioned the Federal Reserve Board to start questioning the credit policies that the banks it supervises maintain toward women. And two groups of financiers, both men and women, are applying for charters to open banks in New York City that would give special consideration to the credit needs of women...