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Similar sentiments are growing in Hollywood. Last week the Motion Picture Association of America (M.P.A.A.) seemed close to making perhaps the most sweeping change in the rating system since it was established 16 years ago. Ready for unveiling is a new rating, known as PG-13, that would prohibit children under 13 from being admitted unless accompanied by a parent or adult guardian. The rating would presumably be used in the future for movies like Indiana Jones that are deemed acceptable for teen-agers but potentially harmful to younger children...
Harvard's policy, established by a Faculty committee in 1970 and last revised in October of 1983, consists of seven principles. The two relevant to recent federal proposals prohibit the acceptance of grants that "carry security classification" and restrict the investigator's right to publish findings...
...lifted. Said he: "To me, this episode is evidence that we must proceed with deregulation." Isaac blamed the bank's troubles partly on a web of entangling state and federal laws. Continental is unable to open offices to seek consumer deposits outside Chicago, for example, because Illinois statutes prohibit branch banking. That has helped make Charts Continental dependent on large foreign customers, who are apt to withdraw their money at the first sign of trouble...
Citystep dancers are circumventing the regular academic rules which prohibit student performances during exam period...
After an eleven-year fight with the funeral industry that dragged through Congress and the courts, the Federal Trade Commission put into effect regulations that require undertakers to give customers detailed price information, even over the telephone. The new rules also prohibit morticians from misleading people into thinking that some services, like embalming, are always required...