Word: prohibition
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Senate is now considering legislation proposed by Feinstein and Kennedy that would allow somatic cell nuclear transfer but prohibit any attempts to actually raise human clones for 10 years...
...whole Congress? Abortion has long divided the Republican Party, and divided parties lose elections. When the 165 members of the Republican National Committee gather for their annual winter meeting this week in Palm Springs, Calif., they'll have a stink bomb on their hands--a resolution that would prohibit the R.N.C. from funding any candidate not opposed to partial-birth abortion. Bauer didn't write the resolution, but his politics inspired it. "This isn't a matter of ideology, it's a matter of human decency," says Colleen Parro, director of the Republican National Coalition for Life. "The Republican Party...
...called second-parent adoptions, or adoptions by the partners of individuals who have given birth to or who have already adopted a child. (This was the lengthy double-adoption procedure that Holden and Galluccio rejected.) Courts in Colorado and Wisconsin have disallowed such adoptions; New Hampshire and Florida prohibit any adoptions by gays, even individuals. There have been no rulings in the other states...
Morgan notes that 36 workers have been fired in recent weeks due to "picket line violations" that include "swearing." While the dictates of good taste prohibit me from detailing specifically what was said, suffice it to say that threatening to rape and kill employees and their families in what the Boston Herald termed "shockingly graphic" terms does not constitute "swearing." This type of sexual and racial harassment would not be tolerated at Harvard University, in any newsroom in the country or indeed at any workplace. The National Labor Relations Board, the federal agency charged with the oversight of labor disputes...
...outpace myself; this is, after all, the Ivy League, where centuries of tradition prohibit adding one critical game to the schedule to allow for some of those precious playoff confusions. We have to content ourselves with the slightly less complicated, if no less prestigious, race for the League crown and bragging rights in the Ancient Eight...