Word: prohibitions
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While the N.R.A. has yet to sue the housing authority, Richard Gardiner, director of the gun lobby's state government-relations division, says a future lawsuit is possible. Among other possibilities, he adds, is "using legislation to prohibit housing authorities from putting such ((antigun)) provisions in place...
...terms of a 1987 rate agreement specifically prohibit any adjustments to the indirect cost payment rates, which one government official says may prevent HHS from recovering any inappropriate billings...
...AALARM points out, traditional Judiasm, like Christianity, does prohibit homosexual activity. Judiasm does not, however, prohibit homosexuals. This distinction is obviously lost on AALARM, which called for the exclusion of homosexuals from Harvard and their imprisonment in last week's postering campaign. Such personal attacks are anathema to the entire Jewish tradition; our history has taught us to resist hate and persecution and to defend others who are victims of hate and persecution...
...other extreme, conservative legalists prohibit acts of male (though not female) homosexual intercourse. Yet even they do not make derogatory reference to gay and lesbian people, something AALARM's postering did. This distinction between act and actor, under which persons are respected even when their deeds are not, has been part of Jewish law for as long as rabbis have written. (For one early Talmudic example, see the Mishna, Berakhot...
...considered a puppet of the National Rifle Association--has voiced his support for the bill. But Bush, unlike his predecessor, still needs the support of the all-too-powerful gun lobby, and has instead chosen to play political games with Congress. The president offered up his own bill to prohibit the domestic assembly of military-style semi-automatic weapons that are banned for import. Bush's bill is designed to offend nobody; as a result, it helps nobody...