Word: restriction
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Under U.S. law, either the U.S. Defense Department or the President can restrict or veto the sale. Last week, reflecting growing concern over the ^ deal, the review process was extended to late July. One particularly sensitive point being raised is Thomson-CSF's record of supplying arms to rogue governments, including Libya and Iraq. Already, 45 Senators and many Congressmen have petitioned President Bush to stop the sale. Argues Senator Jeff Bingaman, chairman of the U.S. Senate Armed Services technology subcommittee: "There isn't a country in the world that would permit the U.S. through a government-owned company...
...Coleman has left to argue is his "actual innocence." It is the one legal path -- albeit a narrow one -- that might enable him to circumvent the habeas corpus guidelines that now essentially restrict capital felons to a single federal appeal. Kathleen Behan, his new attorney, has been relentless in developing the innocence argument. She has made more than a dozen trips to Grundy to uncover new evidence and enlist further support. A few months ago, she rented a backhoe to dig up the landfill where Keester Shortridge said he dumped the bloody sheets. For her effort, she was rewarded with...
...DARMAN CAN'T GET ANY less popular in Washington, the White House budget chief goes ahead and very publicly renounces his privileged use of the chauffeured car that comes with the job. What's more, Darman is advising fellow Cabinet appointees to give up "portal to portal" service and restrict the use of motor pools in their agencies, or else his Office of Management and Budget will do it for them. Presidential aides agree that the push against perks is a smart move that will allow Bush to continue railing against congressional excesses. Says a senior campaign adviser: "Complimenting Darman...
...method seems restrictive, Hogwood maintains that it is actually liberating: "I don't find it an inhibition; the interesting part of the policy is that the more I scientifically measure up the ground that's available, the more ideas strike me about what one can do. It's rather like having a limited number of lines and rhyme schemes when you write a sonnet: it doesn't restrict your ideas, it concentrates you ideas and in fact I think improves on some of your thinking because of the restriction that appears to be there...
Residents would have been charged for mandatory zone parking stickers which would restrict parking within the driver's particular zone...