Word: restriction
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...Legal Services, in which welfare laws had been judged discriminatory or otherwise unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. Legal Services, in defending its client's legal rights to protection under the Constitution, had the political impact of overturning other laws. Now, Gramm wants to end those activities, which would severely restrict Legal Services' ability to serve what even Gramm has granted was their clients...
...would restrict smoking to 30 percent of a restaurant's total seats and 15 percent the year after enactment. The current law allows up to 75 percent of a restaurant's seats for smoking...
Brushing aside still more White House warnings, House Republicans also passed a defense and foreign policy bill that would cut back U.S. financing of U.N. peacekeeping operations, restrict American troops from serving under U.N. command, and create a $1.5 million bipartisan commission to study national-security strategy. The usually solid Republican majority cracked, however, when two dozen party members helped defeat a provision that would have required prompt deployment of a national missile-defense system...
Others do research. But one Currier sophomore says she is determined not to set foot in Widener; she says she'll restrict her research to Lamont...
...that would have revived work on a "Star Wars"-style missile defense system. But GOP House members stuck together today on the far more significant issue of congressional authority over American foreign policy. By a vote of 241-181, the House passed a measure that would restrict the president''s authority to place U.S. troops under foreign command, would cut United Nations funding and would speed expansion of NATO membership to include Eastern European countries. Clinton is expected to veto that measure. He has maintained that it would erode the president''s authority as commander in chief. TIME White House...