Word: prohibitions
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Police authorities in many big cities are trying to lower the death toll by devising departmental rules limiting the use of deadly force and by punishing patrolmen who go too far. Typically, the regulations prohibit such force except under extraordinary circumstances: for example, when a policeman believes that his life or someone else's is in jeopardy, or when there is no other way to stop a violent felony in progress. Many of these new codes are backed up by elaborate review systems that investigate each discharge of a police gun and call for disciplinary action or referral...
...university's admissions policy. In last year's Weber de -cision, the court upheld a quota in a private company's employee training program. Left unresolved, however, was the fundamental constitutional question: Does the "equal protection of the laws" guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment flatly prohibit government affirmative-action programs? In last week's case, six Justices said no. They upheld a 1977 congressional law that specified that out of $4 billion that the Government proposed to spend in helping states and localities finance public works, at least 10% had to go to contracting firms owned...
Only 150 protesters gathered in front of the Corporation building in April to protest the Corporation's decision to abstain on two resolutions which the ACSR had supported--one that would prohibit IBM from selling computers to the South African government and another that would set up a committee to review Caterpillar Tractor sales to the South African military...
...others and to show pornographic films, they should be allowed to do so under the protection of the First Amendment. The current case proves how the less-than-just American judicial system can mishandle controversy brought to its attention. After a civil court judge decided Friday afternoon not to prohibit the showing of the film because did not find it obscene, the district attorney's office chose to make the arrests--a decision that begs reason, not to mention legality. In effect, an assistant clerk of courts and a state trooper overruled a civil court judge by confiscating the film...
...CCSR displayed an equal ignorance about realities in South Africa in its argument not to support an IBM shareholder resolution forbidding computer sales to the South African government. The Corporation claims the resolution would prohibit sales to such harmless institutions as hospitals and schools. With such logic, the University will never take any steps to wield its shareholding power against the South African military, which buys three-quarters of its computers from IBM. Past experience shows the government orders computers for "harmless institutions" and then passes them on to places like population control centers...