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Several months ago, Representative Marcy Kaptur and I introduced legislation that would remedy one of the worst aspects of the influence-peddling problem: officials who leave Government service and then market their professional allegiance as lobbyists for foreign interests. The Wolpe-Kaptur bill would prohibit high-ranking officials from lobbying for any foreign principal in the ten years after they leave office. It is outrageous that public service is being used as a training academy for lobbyists who will enrich themselves on $250,000 annual retainers from Singapore and Brazil. Howard Wolpe, U.S. Representative Third District, Michigan Washington...
...more years, in the hope of curtailing the development of a Star Wars system. In the past few months, he had hinted that the Soviets would be willing to accept an extension of 15 years, or even less. Reagan had offered a plan that would prohibit deployment of SDI for 7½ years. In Iceland both sides tentatively accepted a ten-year extension of the ABM treaty...
Harvard does not recognize fraternities or sororities because its rules governing discrimination currently prohibit groups that only allow members of one sex. This means that Greek groups and others like them are barred from using everything from school money to meeting space to bulletin boards, seriously compromising their ability to be a strong presence on campus...
Largely confined to common rooms, undergraduates must also answer to College regulations, which prohibit parties on 15 weekend nights a year, including the nights before LSATs and those during reading and exam period...
With the reversal, Massachusetts joined California as the second state to prohibit the use of preemptory challenges purely on the basis of race...