Word: prohibitions
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...Mart. Most of the stores (many are open 24 hours) throw out the welcome mat and stock the shelves accordingly. "We treat them as shoppers who take a while to make up their minds," says Wal-Mart spokesman Tom Williams. Some localities are less welcoming, with laws that prohibit overnighting in parking lots. And campground operators point out that saving the average $24-a-night campground fee hardly makes up for the lack of electric, water or sewer services. But, says David Gorin, president of the National Association of RV Parks and Campgrounds, "this has become a game...
...Most students did not enter the building with enough schoolbooks to last them for more than two weeks. And Harvard University Police Department rules prohibit the delivery of anything but food for the students occupying the building...
...banning soft money would "chill free expression." These same dire warnings were echoed in a New York Times op-ed piece last week where the authors (one of whom is general counsel for the New York Civil Liberties Union) sought to prove that banning soft money is tantamount to "prohibit[ing] speech...
...doesn't want McCain-Feingold, but also doesn't want to remembered as just another reform-killing establishment Republican. Bush last week sent over a third proposal, which would ban soft money donations by corporations and unions (as opposed to individuals, who could still write the big checks) and prohibit unions or corporations from using member or shareholder funds for political activities without permission. This is what's known as "paycheck protection," and Bush likes it mostly because unions hate...
...Harkin (D-Iowa), who provided the impetus for the Times article by providing unclassified State Department documents to the newspaper, has promised in conjunction with Republicans Jesse Helms of North Carolina and Mitch McConnell of Kentucky to introduce legislation calling to prohibit imports from Burma...