Word: prohibitively
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...recent trend throughout the U.S. toward restricting offensive speech on campuses is disturbing. Although racist, sexist and homophobic speech should be abhorrent to all, attempting to prohibit them is not an adequate solution...
...general, and in the University in particular, we should carefully guard the distinction between that which we censure, or morally condemn, and that which we censor, or prohibit. Offensive speech deserves moral condemnation and vigorous rebuttal from the University community. Indeed, any liberal community has a responsiblity to condemn and rebut offensive speech. Standards of acceptability must exist, but they need not and should not be set by the University administration. What is important is not that purveyors of offensive speech be disciplined, but that they be loudly and publicly condemned by the community...
...presidential race, and its efforts are credited with turning a portion of the vote against him. And since 1981, when Morton Grove, Ill., became the first American town to pass a comprehensive handgun ban, the N.R.A. has persuaded 38 states to pass pre-emptive laws that prohibit similar actions by local communities...
Within days of the Stockton massacre, several bills to prohibit the sale or possession of semiautomatic weapons came before the state legislature. The proposed bans were supported by police groups, by Republican Governor George Deukmejian and even by Chief Gates. Enter the N.R.A. Mounting its typical take-no-prisoners campaign, the group mobilized California's 260,000 N.R.A. members and inundated legislators with mail and phone calls. This time it didn't work. The ban squeaked through by a single vote in the state assembly. Recall attempts launched by independent progun groups against three legislators who supported the law fizzled...
...affiliates, and even then not before testing the waters. When it does jump in, it tends to do so with both feet. That was one important reason the N.R.A. lost its battle to repeal a Maryland law that set up a Governor-appointed committee to prohibit certain handguns. The gun lobby enraged Governor William Donald Schaefer, a supporter of the law, by distributing a broadsheet that accused him of "untruths" and "flip-flops." That made the popular Schaefer so angry that he became an active campaigner against the N.R.A...