Word: restrict
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Under the auspices of the World Health Organization, 118 nations in 1981 approved a voluntary code to restrict promotion of infant formula. Three years later, Douglas A. Johnson, executive chairman of the Infant Formula Coalition, which organized the boycott, was able to eat a bite-sized Nestle bar, in celebration of the group's victory...
...personal rights. But as Admiral Metcalf eloquently noted, serious military opposition evaporated soon after the initial American assault. Military action continues only in the form of occasional sniper fire in the wooded areas. That the temporary Grenadian government would resort to nonexistent hostilities as a convenient excuse to restrict democratic rights only strengthens the position of Reagan's critics and narrows the moral gap between American and Soviet behavior...
...will not accept any agreement that transfers the threat of longer-range nuclear missiles from Europe to Asia." Also, while warning against trade protectionism in both countries, Reagan strongly condemned a "domestic content" bill passed by the U.S. House of Representatives before he left Washington that would severely restrict the sale of Japanese cars in the U.S. The bill, said Reagan, is "a cruel hoax. It would be raising prices without protecting jobs." In the unlikely event that the bill passes the Senate, Reagan has vowed to veto...
...rise out of Brown is to suggest that AT&T is a monopoly-coddled giant without the agility needed to compete in free markets. "If we're not competent," he says, "I wonder why the competitors are trying to get Congress and the Federal Communications Commission to restrict us in various ways. We must be making a mark somewhere, or the competition wouldn't be so frightened." After spending nearly four decades in a company shackled by Government regulation, Brown is eager to show what an unbound AT&T can do. He is sure that the competition will...
...person being called on calculator-style windows. The Touch-a-matic 1600 ($160) can store up to 16 phone numbers. The $680 Genesis Telesystem, which AT&T Chairman Charles L. Brown uses at home, can forward calls to another number, remember 75 alphabetized names and numbers and restrict outgoing calls...