Word: provisionally
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While the decisions involving race and religion made the biggest headlines, the term's most significant case may yet turn out to be U.S. v. Alfonso Lopez Jr. It overturned a federal law forbidding firearms within 1,000 feet of a school, yet it was not the impact on gun...
The measure had problems from the start. In its original version it would have made online-service providers criminally liable for any obscene communications that passed through their systems--a provision that, given the way the networks operate, would have put the entire Internet at risk. Exon and Coats revised...
Some children's advocates were buoyed last week when the Senate approved an amendment to its telecommunications bill requiring that new TV sets be equipped with a so-called V-chip, a device that would allow parents to block out programming deemed to be violent. But a similar amendment considered...
Brushing aside Clinton Administration concerns that the measure could create invincible media giants and hurt consumers, the Senate passed, 81 to 18, a sweeping measure that would deregulate the telephone, cable and broadcasting industries and allow companies to enter one another's fields of business. The bill also seeks to...
Washington and Pyongyang reached an agreement to provide North Korea with two South Korean nuclear reactors, a central provision of the agreement signed by the U.S. and North Korea last October to dismantle North Korea's suspected nuclear-weapons program.