Word: prohibitions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...government wants to prohibit Canadian companies from deducting, as a business expense, the cost of buying advertising space in the Canadian editions of Reader's Digest and TIME. The two magazines, which are published in separate editions for Canadian readers, were exempted from a 1965 law that ended the tax-deductibility privilege for foreign-owned magazines. Since Canada's basic tax rate on corporate profits will be 46% in 1976, the new law would have the effect of almost doubling the cost of advertising in TIME Canada and the Canadian Reader's Digest. The two publications together...
Although the Church Committee had the power to subpoena government officials, (including high level CIA and State Department officials up through Kissinger), it did not challenge the decision of Ford and Kissinger to prohibit these crucial witnesses from testifying on grounds of "national security...
...would prohibit private ownership of firearms with a barrel of less than 16 inches...
These bills came on top of no fewer than 150 others under consideration by Conyers' House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime. They range from a weak measure offered by President Ford that would prohibit the import and manufacture of cheap ($25) "Saturday night specials" to a proposal to outlaw the sale, ownership or possession of all handguns by private citizens. This and many other measures would be largely unenforceable. But the appalling fact is that despite the recent near tragedies and the countless tragedies that lie ahead for victims of gun wounds, not one of these 150 bills has much...
...rule on drug use is mild compared to the one against not showing your bursars card to any University official who demands it (a rule intended to make identifying rowdy demonstrators as easy as passing a hat for ID cards). The University "discourages" drug use, it does not prohibit it. Attempts to enforce a stricter rule on drugs--like trying to enforce parietal regulations--would meet unmanageable defiance...