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...advisory committee rejected unanimously a resolution that would prohibit Merck & Co. from contributing assets to political candidates, parties or government officials to purchase favor for its own operations because the committee found the resolution "badly worded and ambiguous...
...contrast to a "Sunday picnic" held last April that attracted thousands of people and substantial numbers of vendors, the MDC, Cambridge City Council and Riverbend group have jointly decided to prohibit all vending in the mall area throughout the four-Sunday trial period...
News Service for instance, a petroleum industry newsletter that costs $435 a year, is available for pennies a copy to anyone with a Xerox machine and a borrowed original. After years of controversy, the Senate last week passed a revision of the copyright law that would prohibit photocopying of more than a small excerpt from copyrighted material. The bill is now bogged down in the House. Says Marshall McLuhan: "Whereas Caxton and Gutenberg enabled all men to become readers, Xerox has enabled all men to become publishers...
...employ Jews in projects within Saudi Arabia. These policies are morally reprehensible, but it is not The Crimson's prerogative to summarily refuse Aramco the right to advertise because of Saudi Arabia's domestic policies. Through its editorial columns The Crimson can and does attack these policies; to prohibit Aramco from advertising under the guise of moral responsibility is to commit a crime of equal proportion to Saudi Arabia's racism...
...Action on Smoking and Health), as well as such organizations as the American Cancer Society and the American Heart Association, have had some impressive successes: largely as the result of their campaigns, 31 states and scores of cities in the U.S. have passed a wide range of laws that prohibit smoking in places as varied as elevators, museums, hospitals, theaters, stores, buses and subways. Now, however, the antismokers seem bent on controlling all public "breathing space." In offices and waiting rooms, desk plaques admonish...