Word: prohibition
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ordinance exempts the Jewish ritual slaughter techniques practiced by kosher butchers, because kosher slaughter methods are designed to prevent the animals' suffering while Santeria sacrifices are not. The issue of cruelty to animals, say the city officials, distinguishes rites deserving of protection from rites which the city can prohibit...
...gray wolves, have suddenly appeared. Officials at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, for example, fear that their long-discussed plans to reintroduce wolves to Yellowstone could become sidetracked. The Endangered Species Act would require the Federal Government to protect wild wolves from hunters and ranchers, and could prohibit the reintroduction of other wolves. Conservationists are worried that there will be too few immigrant animals to start a thriving population, and that a complacent public will mistakenly assume that the problem of getting wolves back into Yellowstone has been solved...
Should lobbyists moonlight for presidential campaigns? Montana Senator Max Baucus has introduced a bill to prohibit senior campaign officials from lobbying for foreign interests to "ensure that they do not use their public positions to promote the agendas of their private-sector clients." But the problem isn't only foreign lobbyists. As long as presidential candidates rely on the advice of those whose salaries are paid by special interests, foreign or domestic, they reinforce the impression that government is for sale to the highest bidder...
...latest pet bill passed Congress in late September and awaits President Bush's signature: the Cuban Democracy Act will prohibit subsidiaries of U.S. companies from trading with the island and bar any ship that docks in Cuba from unloading at U.S. ports. Prominent dissidents in Cuba argued that the measure would only worsen living conditions, not oust Castro. While the White House supports the embargo, it opposed tightening it for fear of alienating U.S. trade allies but quickly changed its mind after Clinton backed the measure. "There's no question Mas has a lot of power in Washington," said...
Another guarantee of academic free speech could be the institution of strict guidelines for firing professors, which would prohibit the termination of a professor for the views hie espouses and which would require compelling evidence that he is being fired for other reasons...