Word: refrained
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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According to Eastland, the framers of the Constitution and the 14th Amendment did not "contemplate sexual equality." Thus, courts should refrain from extending equal rights to women. Reagan, however, in his repeated attacks on the Equal Rights Amendment, has claimed that the ERA is redundant...
...statement from the Soviet government published by the official Tass news agency said Moscow "declares itself free from the unilateral commitment made by it to refrain from conducting any nuclear explosions." The self-imposed ban began in August and was extended twice since...
Most Americans apparently agree with Donaldson. In a 1985 Gallup poll, 62% of tobacco users and 85% of abstainers thought smokers should refrain from lighting up when nonsmokers are around. That agreement, say tobacco foes, is the result of well-publicized, though controversial, studies on the dangers of secondhand smoke. Explains John Banzhof of the Washington-based Action on Smoking and Health (ASH): "The burning issue in cigarette smoking now is not the harm you can do to yourself but the harm to others...
Most credit-counseling services offer extensive financial advice. Says G. Bennett Perry, associate director of Credit Counselors Corp., a Fort Lauderdale-based firm: "We go over the entire budget, from rent to haircuts." Debtors are advised to keep a written record of all their expenditures and to refrain, under any circumstances, from borrowing more money...
...Soviets have put international pressure on the Reagan administration to refrain from testing by announcing their own moratorium, which Gorbachev said Thursday would remain in effect until the United States explodes another nuclear device...