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...alleged threat to individual privacy, which many fear is infringed upon by the direct marketers' aggressive collecting of trade information about the finances and spending habits of potential customers. Democratic Congressman Charles Schumer of New York plans to resubmit a bill to Congress next year that aims to prohibit the use of credit information for marketing purposes. At present, many credit agencies tap into sensitive data to compile lists that can then be rented by direct-mail marketers...
More than a dozen states have passed legislation to stem the electronic barrage. Some versions ban or restrict the hours in which automatic dialers can be used. Others -- notably Connecticut, Florida, Maryland and Oregon -- prohibit unsolicited fax-machine advertisements outright. Constitutional lawyers argue that fax bans might violate the senders' free-speech rights, but Congress may take action. Democratic Representative Edward Markey of Massachusetts is sponsoring a bill that would make it illegal to send fax solicitations or automatically dialed, prerecorded phone pitches to people who have notified a clearinghouse that they do not want them. The White House says...
...require payments in excess of the original contract. The proposed law would limit to $100,000 the amount the state could pay on a consultant contract with an individual and would require all other consultant contracts in excess of $25,000 to be sought through competitive bidding. It would prohibit consultants from supervising state employees, and it would limit the use of consultants as substitutes for state employee positions...
...graduate presidents of Harvard's nine final clubs yesterday voted to prohibit alcohol from the remainder of this fall's "punching" process and earlier this week moved to ban kegs from the clubs altogether, several undergraduate club presidents said last night...
Late last year the Justice Department reviewed how the Executive Order might apply to U.S.-supported coups. Its conclusions are secret. But former CIA counsel Bruemmer has publicly voiced an opinion that the order "does not prohibit U.S. officials from encouraging and supporting a coup, even where there is a likelihood of violence and a high probability that there will be casualties among opponents of the coup." So long as the U.S. does not approve specific plans for the killing of individuals, he says, the "prohibition against assassination has not been violated...