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...Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, one of Washington's most liberal legislative coalitions. It was 11 years more before the group took a consensus position on anything involving gay rights. In 1994 it backed a modest change in the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, or ENDA, that would prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation while permitting an exemption for churches. Two years later that amendment was defeated in the Senate by just a single vote...
Mutual-fund regulations prohibit the kind of leverage that drove Long Term Capital into receivership. The Securities and Exchange Commission also makes mutual funds disclose details of their investments. There are few such restrictions on hedge funds--or protections for their investors--except that the funds may not accept investors with less than $1 million in liquid assets...
...bylaws also prohibit officials ofgovernments or multinational organizations such asthe United Nations from sitting on the board...
...institution want to make it very clear that we prohibit the use of alcohol by those who are under legal age and we discourage the use of alcohol in general," Huppe said...
...solution to preventing shootings like the one in Washington is right before our eyes: prohibit handguns. SUSANNE PAUL Burlington, Mass...