Word: prohibition
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...vicinity or to breathe clean air? The proposal would disallow smoking only when other people are involuntarily affected--in workplaces employers and employees could still agree to set aside areas for smoking. In places where passersby have no choice but to breathe the air, it is hardly unreasonable to prohibit an activity that presents such a known hazard to the public health...
Ironically, Meese, who is now Attorney General, or one of his subordinates must soon decide whether to pursue a criminal investigation of Nofziger. Federal laws prohibit onetime senior employees of the Government from lobbying their former agencies for at least a year after leaving office. Nofziger told the Times he was recovering from a mild stroke in 1982 and did not actually recall his letter to Jenkins. Meanwhile, investigations of Wedtech's ties to influential politicians are under way in New York City and Baltimore; a federal grand jury in New York has called Nofziger to testify. Like Michael Deaver...
...Andrew Mendelsohn's November 5 article, "Sincere Censorship," attacks the longstanding First Amendment doctrine that government may prohibit or burden the free exercise of a person's sincere religious beliefs only when necessary to achieve a compelling governmental interest. Discussing the recent Tennessee court ruling against a school district that suspended students who refused to read certain textbooks on religious grounds, Mendelsohn condemns the court for examining the sincerity, not the merits, of the religious beliefs involved. He contends that courts hearing free exercise claims should evaluate the "coherence" of religious beliefs, determine whether they are compatible with the outside...
...Question 1: Should the Massachusetts Legislature be empowered to regulate or prohibit abortion?12% YES 84% NO .Question 2: Should the government give public funding to non-public schools? 24% YES 71% NO .Question 3: Should all drivers and passengers be required to wear safety belts while traveling in motor vehicles on public roads? 28% YES 67% NO .Whom would you choose to be the next governor of Massachusetts? 57% Dukakis 6% Kariotis .Whom would you choose to be Cambridge's next Congressman? 49% Kennedy 16% Abt Five percent of the undergraduate population was polled in a telephone survey conducted...
When Congress voted sanctions against South Africa last month over President Reagan's veto, it left unresolved the thorny question of whether American firms would continue operating in the land of apartheid. While sanctions prohibit new American investments in South Africa, they do not affect the billions of dollars that U.S. companies have already invested in operations there. Thus the American business presence in South Africa has continued to be a focus for con-troversy, as well as a major public relations problem for many large U.S. companies. Last week, in a move that was of great symbolic importance even...