Word: restrict
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There is of course, ample room for honest disagreement as to when the harm caused by individuals acting freely is so great as to justify the harm inherent in restricting them. My basic quarrel with Mr. Stevens, I think, is that he seems unaware that every restriction involves such a trade-off; once convinced of what's right, he assumes all should be made to conform, whether or not lack of conformity does great harm. The fact that the Final Clubs practice sex discrimination, simply as a matter of preference, is sufficient to persuade him (and the Committee on College...
...fetus's case it does not even do that). It is here to enshrine as well the principles that make us a good society. We all know there is disagreement on what is "good" in many areas, but to suggest that this translation should not be attempted is to restrict our Constitution to being an instrument of the barest self-preservation, one I am sure Mr. Gooen would not like if he looked at it closely enough...
...This Administration is committed to trying to enforce secrecy to the extent no previous Administration has," declares Benno Schmidt, dean of Columbia Law School. The Administration has repeatedly tried to crack down on leakers, restrict press access and draft tighter secrecy laws...
Some critics view the Pentagon restrictions on coverage of the space shuttle as part of a broader effort to restrict the free flow of information on defense policy...
...magnetospheric particle tracer explorers (AMPTE), three satellites, each designed by one of the participating nations, were launched on a single Delta rocket from Cape Canaveral in August. Since then the probes have been working together, although in different orbits, on a series of seven experiments. Space scientists must normally restrict their research to the passive observation of the heavens. AMPTE was designed to turn space into an active laboratory. "Rather than wait for chance events to happen, we decided to go out there and simulate natural conditions," says Mario Acuña, an astrophysicist with NASA'S Goddard Space...