Word: prohibition
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Despite its size, Jardine still attempts to run the class like a seminar. Even though students are seated in a circle, numbers prohibit a completely discussion-oriented class...
...federal government and the state of Massachusetts have adopted extensive legislation to stem obscenity. Explicitly or by judicial decision (such as in the recent case of U.S. v. Thomas), such laws have been found applicable to computers. In addition, laws such as Massachusetts Chapter 272, Section 48, specifically prohibit the provision of obscenity to minors. Further intrusive-as well as far more expansive-legislation is simply unnecessary...
...legislation being protested: making it illegal to transmit "indecent" materials to minors, or discuss where or how to get an abortion on the Internet. The ACLU says it will challenge the bill in federal court, contending that the bill's wording is so vague that it would prohibit transmittal of novels like "Catcher in the Rye" and other forms of already-permitted free speech. Acccording to TIME's Joshua Quittner, "The protest shows the solidarity of online providers against a truly Kafkaesque piece of legislation." Quittner is not disappointed by the relative gentleness of the protest. "The online community...
...business there. French ski giant Rossignol-Dynaster has seen its snowboard production increase 100% in the past three years, and according to product manager Jean-Karl Carpano of Rossignol, "We could see every other person on a snowboard by 2005." There are some isolated ski areas that prohibit snowboarding, but the vast majority caters to the ever increasing numbers of boarders who want to tweak the halfpipes and bonk some fat air (ride the parabolic-shaped chutes and hit a really good jump). As Bill Adams, director of the Mount Mansfield Ski School in Stowe, Vermont, says, "They have saved...
...council's resolution, which passed with no opposition and 11 abstentions, "requests the Harvard Corporation and Board of Overseers of Harvard College to adopt a policy of selective purchasing which would prohibit any part of the University or its subsidiaries from buying products from or entering into contracts with oil companies which invest in Nigeria...