Word: prohibition
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...latest attempt by the City of Cambridge to eliminate or restrict nerve gas testing, the City Council last night moved toward a new zoning ordinance which would prohibit the manufacture, testing and storage of nerve...
Princeton Philosopher Paul Ramsey offers another version of that response. Ramsey comes from the other side of the great research debate. He argues that children may never be made guinea pigs and that we have no right to "consent" on their behalf. A most stringent Kantian, he would prohibit all experimentation on nonconsenting subjects. But for those of us who see the requirement for research as a moral imperative equal in force to the imperative to respect the individual, he counsels: if you must do it, do it, but do not deny the moral force of the imperative you violate...
...Beard at a Massachusetts State House news conference announced a shift from national efforts to local campaigns against handguns. The new focus on local level politics will try to convince city and town governments to legislate against handguns. Natalie Roy, director of Massachusetts Citizens for Handgun Control, wants to prohibit citizens from taking guns outside their homes; local police would enforce the prohibition...
...entire scheme rests on enforcability. Activist Roy says that police would prohibit citizens from taking handguns outside their homes. No easy matter, considering that one of the original problems is that a handgun fits nicely in a briefcase, a purse, a cost pocket. Furthermore, this answer leaves unaddressed the very real dangers of having a gun in the home: they cause an overwhelming number of accidents. More than half of the 10,000 people who were killed by handguns in 1983 were shot by relatives, friends, or acquaintances, according to the FBI. If a policeman were to transgress the rights...
...aides to James Litvack, the executive director of the Ivy League, as well as Harvard Athletic Director Jack Reardon, explicitly denied the existence of any medical rule that might prohibit the two Crimson runners from appearing in this weekend's Ivy championship showdown at Penn...