Word: restriction
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...most inane and hypocritical aspects of Jews and Blacks do not lie in the authors' resistance to such a quasi-conservative agenda, but their denial that it is even morally legitimate. Lerner criticizes the great Jewish defection from liberalism as fundamentally anti-Jewish, attempting to restrict his people's political freedom. He writes: "It is only if Jews can stay connected to our task as witnesses to God's presence and hence as witnesses to the possibility of transformation from the ethos of selfishness to the ethos of caring (what I call a 'Politics of Meaning') that retaining...
...Kane, Harvard College's housingofficer, said house masters must restrict smokingif the smoke enters the hallways...
...Newt Gingrich and his lackeys attempt to change America, their most radical measures are not the punitive and reactionary proposals in the Contract With America, but their attempts to reshape, restrict and control popular opinion. These Republicans realize that their agenda is threatened more by the ideals and attitudes of the American people than by congressional Democratic resistance. They are most distressed by a simple, fundamental belief that the public stubbornly clings to--that the government has a responsibility to promote social welfare, especially for its most disadvantaged citizens. While House Republicans ram cuts in antipoverty programs through Congress...
...Gingrich told a U.S. Chamber of Commerce town meeting broadcast around the country. Gingrich andHouse Majority Leader Dick Armey(R-Tx.) called on voters to put grassroots pressure on the rebel representatives -- 102 of the 230-member GOP caucus -- to "keep our word on theContract." The rebels want to restrict tax credits to families with incomes no higher than $95,000, instead of $200,000. Rubbing salt in the wound, House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt released Treasury Department figures today that say that otherwise, 51.4 percent of the GOP tax package would benefit those with incomes...
Upping the ante in the tobacco debate, FDA Commissioner David Kessler said that nicotine addiction begins when most smokers are teenagers and that smoking should properly be addressed as a "pediatric disease." The FDA, he said, is still studying whether to regulate or restrict the sale of tobacco-moves that would probably displease the current Congress...