Word: restriction
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...defiant 1991 law, struck down by lower courts, which would have banned most abortions and sent noncomplying doctors to prison. The action, the second such within four months, suggests that despite bitter disagreement, for now the high bench is sticking by last term's compromise words: states may restrict abortion, but not ban it or impose "undue" barriers...
This year, the editors voted to restrict the power of the president in appointing other officers, a power that many felt Schulman had abused...
...soon as I read that an alumnus had donated a Colorado ski resort to the University, I knew there would be trouble. I was right. Suddenly there are students declaring that Harvard should not accept the gift, or should at least restrict its use by Harvard organizations. Surely this is a serious case of misperceiving reality...
...campaign promise to place himself at the center of decisions on spending, taxes and trade, not reserve his full, hands-on attention for the foreign policy work of the National Security Council, the way Bush and many previous Presidents have done. Clinton's action also signaled his intention to restrict the power of Cabinet officers and to play them off against one another in the manner of Franklin Roosevelt...
...resolution also cites Denver, Aspen, and several cities in California which have moved to restrict gay rights...