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Since that decision, only one in ten of the nation's lawyers has ventured into advertising. Many still fear that they will be stigmatized. Furthermore, in setting guidelines, many states have retained substantial barriers. Ten states bar slogans, twelve prohibit ads on TV, and Mississippi forbids rhetorical questions like...
...dingen, a U.S. Army base near Frankfurt in West Germany, helicopter maintenance crews do much of their work under tents instead of in hangars. They use jury-rigged lighting and, in cold weather, kerosene heaters that military regulations prohibit as safety hazards. Across the road, 36 armed M-60 tanks stand ready to go to war-if they can churn their way out of a vast mudhole that turns into a pond whenever it rains. At Fliegerhorst barracks near Hanau, 15 miles south of Büdingen, helicopter repair crews have taken over the base's only gymnasium. They...
...decision of the term, the court struck down a San Diego ordinance banning billboards as an unconstitutional infringement of free speech because the law was too broad. In the process, however, seven Justices with differing views on the ordinance agreed that states and cities do have the right to prohibit strictly commercial billboards. A bewildered Justice William Rehnquist described his colleagues' disparate opinions as "a virtual Tower of Babel, from which no definitive principles can be clearly drawn...
...Statutes prohibit the Navy and Air Force from putting females into combat, while service regulations preclude the Army and Marine Corps from using them in that capacity...
...University's foes, may soon combine to subordinate Harvard to City Hall. And that, in turn, may change the University's aloofness to neighborliness, a little forced, perhaps, but there nonetheless. The city council is expected to vote, before its summer recess, in favor of a bill that will prohibit the growth of Harvard and other non-profit institutions into residential neighborhoods without special--and very hard to obtain--permission. Under the new law, the Cambridge Community Development department says, "institutional growth would not be completely prohibited...but would be substantially limited...