Word: restrict
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Last year the Governor of Montana objected to French designer Claude Montana's claim that he owns exclusive rights to use the word Montana on a variety of clothing goods. The Governor contends that no one can restrict use of a word that is a geographic location...
Certain Harvard students don't restrict their business clothes to the summer work-place. Convinced that they are what they wear, these students will candidly admit that sliding on a tie in the morning helps them get ahead...
...society, we have not yet reached the point where this is possible. While our public culture exposes politically correct views of tolerance, all too often, people still privately harbor archaic ideas about sexual norms which restrict the opportunity for necessary communication about life-and-death health issues. If we are effectively to confront the danger to our community posed by these problems, we must begin with an open and honest discussion...
...made her an enduring leader: open markets, vigorous debate and loyal alliances. Among her first fights: a struggle against Britain's out-of-control trade unions, which had destroyed three governments in succession. Thatcher turned the nation's antiunion feeling into a handsome parliamentary majority and a mandate to restrict union privileges by a series of laws that effectively ended Britain's trade-union problem once and for all. "Who governs Britain?" she famously asked as unions struggled for power. By 1980, everyone knew the answer: Thatcher governs...
...talking about safety here," Despotes told Mayor Francis H. Duehay '55, when the mayor asked him to restrict his comments to the issues on the council agenda...