Word: restriction
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Since the 1987 Vatican-inspired ouster of the Rev. Charles Curran from the theology faculty at Washington's Catholic University of America, educators have nervously waited for the first papal decree setting overall policy in higher education. Would John Paul II, who is determined to restrict dissident theologians, lay the ground for further purges? When the decree was finally issued last week, most academicians greeted it with relief. It seemed to be an endorsement of free intellectual investigation and the autonomy of academic institutions. But while the Pope had decided against a strategy of direct confrontation, there were passages...
...Hold mandatory date rape workshops for all first-year students. There is no excuse for Harvard to restrict such important protection to a voluntary basis...
...Cambridge City Council last night agreed to restrict and regulate commercial parking, as part of an interim agreement that should bring the city closer to compliance with air quality standards established in the 1973 federal Clean...
...game has been played for higher stakes since the Webster case last year, in which the court gave states wider latitude to restrict abortion. O'Connor's position was more decisive -- and uncomfortable -- than ever. She voted in favor of the Missouri statute under review (which forbids the use of state funds for abortions). But she balked at the opportunity to let history record that the Supreme Court's first woman was also the one who provided the crucial vote to end abortion rights. "There will be time enough to re-examine Roe," she wrote, "and to do so carefully...
...economic development of the past decade has been the deregulation of financial movements across borders. This has created a worldwide pool of capital that enables borrowers in countries with low savings to tap into the cash of others. But because of this development, national policies that artificially encourage or restrict investment have an international impact and could lead to forms of economic conflict as dangerous as trade wars...