Word: restricting
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Before Spring Break, the Housing Office revealed that over 40 percent fewer students applied to transfer houses this spring than at the same time last year. This decline in the number of requests is likely affected by substantial changes in the house transfer process. By introducing new restrictions into the transfer procedure, the Faculty Committee on House Life has made switching houses less attractive. In the past, we have stood consistently against policies, such as randomization, that severely, restrict student choice with regard to living situations. Similarly, we are now concerned about the new house transfer policy, one which...
...Spice Entertainment are challenging the law as a violation of their First Amendment rights and had asked that the law not be enforced while a court decision on their lawsuit is pending. The two companies charge that the exorbitant cost of scrambling their programs has led cable operators to restrict adult sex programs to airtimes between 10p.m. and 6a.m only. Playboy and Spice Entertainment argued that cable customers concerned about the programming can request that cable companies block individual channels from reaching their homes, but to no avail. The Supreme Court has not finished with the prickly issue of indecency...
...booming popularity seems to be matched only by the growing number of people who hate them. Antisnowmobilers complain that the motorized sleds, with their primitive but powerful two-cycle engines, are loud, dirty and dangerous and that they intrude on quieter users of public lands. Most national parks tightly restrict their use; California's Yosemite and Montana's Glacier national parks prohibit them outright...
...issues concerning Jerusalem were left to the Permanent Status negotiations. In the meantime, the agreements do specifically restrict the Palestinian Authority (PA) from controlling Jerusalem (Interim Agreement, Article XVII). Accordingly, the Committee for Accurate Middle East Reporting Association (CAMERA) reported that Israeli building in Jerusalem is no more a violation of the Oslo Accords than the extensive Palestinian building which is taking place throughout PA-controlled areas...
...much can you get for $1? Although we didn't expect much in return for a Harvard Coop membership, we certainly didn't expect to get ripped off. We understand that the Coop was losing money, but instead of reaching deep into students' pockets, perhaps it can restrict its uncompetitive prices to items popular among the hordes of tourists who are dropped off by the bus load in the Yard almost every...