Word: prohibitions
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...other domestic issues, public opinion is neither very conservative nor very liberal. Passage of the Equal Rights Amendment, which Reagan opposes, is still favored by a majority. Gun control, also opposed by Reagan, is supported by more than half the voters. Reagan's support for an amendment to prohibit abortions is not shared by 46% and is endorsed by only...
...battle: the Internal Revenue Service rejected a challenge from Merrill two weeks ago, ruling that Public Broadcasting Communications, Inc., which publishes Dial for the sponsoring stations, is a nonprofit, tax-exempt organization. Merrill had already lost a round with the Federal Communications Commission, which last month refused to prohibit PBS stations from promoting Dial...
...University's policy will continue to prohibit groups not recognized by the Committee on Housing and Undergraduate Life (CHUL) to distribute printed materials on Harvard property, either indoors or outdoors, Epps said. Harvard, however, has no jurisdiction over Cambridge sidewalks outside the Freshman Union and certain areas of the Science Center, he added...
...President-elect Ronald Reagan, one of the not-so-incidental pleasures of his visit to Washington last week was the chance to applaud a legislative harbinger of his upcoming Administration. While Reagan was in town, the Senate passed a measure that would prohibit the Justice Department from seeking court-ordered busing in school desegregation cases. "I am heart and soul in favor of the things that have been done in the name of civil rights and desegregation," said Reagan. "I happen to believe, however, that busing has been a failure." The measure, proposed as a rider to an appropriations bill...
...first target of their attack was a long-standing conservative shibboleth--school busing to achieve racial balance or alleviate segregation. The Senate attached "riders" to several appropriations bills that would prohibit the Justice Department from suing local school districts in an effort to balance school racially through busing programs...