Word: restrict
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...arrival of RU 486 in the U.S. -- especially in a form that requires the woman merely to take pills rather than also get a shot -- the vision of some pro-choice advocates, that the drug could abort the abortion debate, will be tested. Will antiabortion activists find ways to restrict the availability of the abortion pill? And if not, will RU 486 really obviate the clinics and confound the picketers...
...card keys, to be installed in all of the College's residential houses, raised questions of Harvard's ability to restrict students' access to dorms electronically...
Faced with a federal prison population that has more than doubled nationwide in the past decade and incarceration costs that average $20,000 a person each year, judges often welcome the alternatives to imprisonment that consultants are paid to contrive. Recent efforts to loosen federal sentencing guidelines, which restrict a judge's discretion in letting convicted offenders avoid prison, could further this trend. Attorney General Janet Reno has announced she will review and possibly dispense with sentencing guidelines for minor drug offenses, and U.S. District Judge Harold Greene declared guidelines unconstitutional in a variety of cases. A change...
...involved, and within a few years the first standardized programs rolled into classrooms. But by the 1960s came the backlash from the John Birch Society, Mothers Organized for Moral Stability and other groups. By the early '70s they had persuaded at least 20 state legislatures to either restrict or abolish sex education...
Moreover, we oppose current Harvard regulations which restrict postering to official student organizations or groups of a certain size that ask for special permission, and our standing policy is to poster for any Harvard students who do not have the administration's permission to do so in their own name...