Word: restrict
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Buyers' Information. Consumerists charge that the Administration is hypocritical in its claim to support a free-market economy because it has moved to restrict the flow of information needed for a truly free marketplace. The White House has canceled regulations that would have required industries to post a list of chemicals their workers are exposed to on the job, made drug firms spell out the possible risks of each medicine they sell, and now plans to cancel a regulation that would compel hotdog makers to note if their products contain ground bone. The Car Book, a popular 68-page...
SCHOOL PRAYER. Helms has reintroduced a bill banning Supreme Court review of cases involving prayer in public schools, and a Senate Judiciary subcommittee has scheduled hearings on it for next January or February. But Hatch has scheduled competing hearings on a plan of his own to restrict the powers of lower courts, but not the Supreme Court, to rule on prayer as well as busing cases...
Oaths have their sinister uses. They can turn into weapons to coerce and restrict. The solemn oath, of course, is not a bad way to lie. The Mafia enforces silence with an oath, and the blood oath over the centuries has killed more people than a medieval plague. But, in a free society, the oath has a crucial ceremonial function. The Hippocratic Oath reminds new doctors of their obligation, of the human context of their calling. An immigrant knows that the oath of citizenship is spiritually, almost physically, nourishing. His oath is a symbolic drama of community...
...bridge this gap, Ambassador-at-Large Vernon Walters visited Guatemala City last May. Walters reportedly held out the promise of increased military support, while indicating that the Administration hoped the government would restrict its terrorism. For Guatemala, the new policy has already paid off. In June Washington lifted the export ban on military Jeeps and trucks...
...side, Reagan's advisers are split on how far to go in urging the other countries to restrict trade with the Soviet bloc. The State Department would recommend only more restrictions on exports of strategic goods; the Pentagon wants a tougher approach, contending, for example, that West Germany should halt its plans to build a pipeline to import Soviet natural gas. U.S. summit planners have little hope of resolving that division by next week, so Reagan probably will confine himself to generalities...