Word: prohibition
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Reagan has tried to stop the passage of the 1986 Civil Rights Restoration Act by attaching an anti-abortion amendment. This act would prohibit the federal funding of institutions that discriminate on the basis of race, sex or disability. The Reagan amendment would replace these broken chains with new ones. Until women are no longer trapped in the vicious circle of poverty by their pregnancies, abortions will continue. The marches will continue. And life will lose a little of what makes it sacred...
However, the court's decision on Grove City drastically curtailed the scope of Title IX of the Education Ammendments of 1972--legislation designed to prohibit sex discrimination in education. The court ruled that anti-discrimination rules apply only to programs that are direct recipients of federal funding...
Sometimes the U.S. Supreme Court giveth. Sometimes it taketh away. Last week it did both when it looked at the pestiferous question of pornography. First it concluded that the city of Indianapolis had acted unconstitutionally when it sought to prohibit some pornography as a form of discrimination against women. Then the next day the court ruled that cities or towns are free to use zoning ordinances to confine adult-movie theaters to the fringes of towns...
Stephen D. Immerman, the MIT official whosupervises student use of MIT facilities, saidpermission was denied because the activist groupwould not agree to meet MIT's safety standards.The standards would prohibit the protesters fromsleeping in the shanties and require them to set adefinite date for the shanties' destruction,Immerman said...
Cambridge shelters have the resources to shelter additional individuals. In fact, Shelter, Inc. organizers have raised more than $250,000 to convert the former Congregational Church near Central Square into a transitional housing facility. But the city's zoning laws prohibit the construction of any more "community residence facilities" in that Central Square neighborhood...