Word: restriction
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Angeles, Gore was already prepared to talk about gun control at the packed gymnasium of Fairfax High School, where a student was shot dead in English class six years ago. But moments before he was to arrive, the House of Representatives voted 280-147 against legislation to restrict access to guns and impose safety locks on them. Gore had found his mojo. "What is the Congress doing?" he asked, his arms whirring. "With your help, I will personally lead the fight to pass [these laws] as President of the United States...
...watching their favorite stars threatened with grisly deaths. Many politicians are hoping that by reining in violent imagery, they can prevent future Columbines--or at least convince constituents that they are trying to. Americans seem receptive: 64% of the respondents in a TIME/CNN poll said they favor legislation to restrict teenagers' access to violent and sexually explicit entertainment...
...said he was unsure of why the graduates would restrict the undergraduates beyond barring guests, but policy violations may have played a role...
...Despite its easy passage in the House of Representatives, 46 Faculty members sign a statement urging the defeat of the federal Mundt-Nixon bill, which would restrict the activities of communists. SEPTEMBER...
...what? Where is the harm? What is wrong with rewarding people, poor or not, for a dead relative's organ? True, auctioning off organs in the market so that the poor could not afford to get them would be offensive. But this program does not restrict supply to the rich. It seeks to increase supply...