Word: restriction
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cable industry, which fears being run over by its much larger rivals, immediately attacked the FCC order. Cable companies complain that phone carriers can compete unfairly by drawing on ratepayer funds to subsidize new TV ventures and using their monopoly over local telephone lines to restrict access from competitors. Although the FCC vowed to guard against such practices, skeptics point out that the agency's resources are too limited for it to do so. Critics also note that any gains consumers realize from lower cable prices could be more than offset by the $100 billion to $500 billion they...
...look at it, I've got more budget cuts in my budget than Bush has advocated. Bush has expanded parts of the government that I recommended restricting, including total federal employment. I want a leaner bureaucracy and more investment. Most of that will go into private hands. If you build roads and bridges and high-speed rail networks, that money winds up being spent on contracts in the private sector. I've always supported increased investment targeted to areas that would promote economic growth and education, but I've tried to restrict the growth of what you might call...
...those ubiquitous Golden Arches seem hard to find in the Square, there's a good reason. There are none. Cambridge ordinances restrict fast food franchises in the Square. A severe Big Mac Attack requires a T ride or quick walk to Central or Porter Squares, where a whole complex of fast food outlets awaits...
...rising at a faster rate than any other cause, a situation the Journal characterized as a public health epidemic. Yet the Brady gun-control bill, part of the crime package the Bush Administration opposes, is languishing in the U.S. Senate. And what few laws have been passed to restrict the use of firearms are themselves under attack. The same week public officials were talking about outlawing squirt guns, New Jersey Republicans were mounting an attempt to repeal a state law that bans military-style assault weapons...
...Americans kicking the habit? Health risks and social pressures are important turnoffs, say researchers at the Centers for Disease Control. Forty- four states and the District of Columbia now restrict smoking in public places, and many non-smokers are no longer shy about telling friends and co- workers to snuff it. But the biggest factor may be sticker shock. A pack of < cigarettes went for 23 cents in 1955; the average price last year...