Word: restriction
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...also organized a protest against Sen. Alan K. Simpson (R-Wyo.), when he spoke at the Institute of Politics in April. Approximately 200 students attended the rally to voice their disapproval of Simpson's legislation seeking to restrict legal immigration...
...different origins and interests," they wrote. "We do not find persuasive some of the arguments put forward in opposition to heterogeneity, such as the need for the Houses to be a place for retreat from the stresses of College life, this supposedly requiring students [to] be able to restrict their social contacts to persons similar to themselves...
...Nobody was going into debt as a result of Deep Springs; this encouraged an intellectual freedom with economic constraints," he said. "If you feel in a sense financially indebted to your family this can restrict your intellectual freedom and what seems conceivable...
...SEEMS MUCH CONCERNED ABOUT CHILDREN when the subject is welfare or Medicaid cuts, but mention divorce, and tears flow for their tender psyches. Legislators in half a dozen states are planning to restrict divorce on the grounds that it may cause teen suicide, an inability to "form lasting attachments" and possibly also the piercing of nipples and noses...
...divorce itself hasn't reduced America's youth to emotional cripples, then the efforts to restrict it undoubtedly will. First, there's the effect all this antidivorce rhetoric is bound to have on the children of people already divorced--and we're not talking about some offbeat minority. At least 37% of American children live with divorced parents, and these children already face enough tricky interpersonal situations without having to cope with the public perception that they're damaged goods...