Word: restriction
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...trade agreement that would grant the Soviets most- favored-nation status, a maritime transport pact, and an investment treaty. The U.S. and its allies could also block Moscow's entry into the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, the International Monetary Fund and other international bodies, and restrict Soviet access to funds from the nascent European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, a consortium of 42 nations...
...movement is gaining force in Europe as well. The French government plans to ban all tobacco advertising by 1993 and to restrict alcohol ads to print media. The European Community has called for a ban on TV commercials for tobacco products. Asia has generally been slower to put limits on tobacco and alcohol, but a health movement is beginning to spring up at least partly in response to the arrival of U.S. tobacco marketers...
Other Massachusetts courts have used the same law to restrict the rights of shopping mall owners and symphony orchestras to take action against people based on the nature of their speech. The message the courts have sent is that even if you own the property, you don't have an absolute right to control what is said there...
When the Supreme Court last summer ruled that states could restrict abortions, all-out political warfare broke out. Both pro-life and pro-choice forces have since won victories: Michigan, Minnesota and Florida declined to enact new strictures on abortion; South Carolina began requiring parental or judicial consent for minors; Pennsylvania outlawed abortion for parents unhappy with the sex of the fetus. Last week abortion foes scored their greatest success yet when Idaho's senate passed the toughest abortion measure in any state...
...that is what is happening, beggaring all notions of propriety and common sense. The reason: unbridled, boundless greed. The owners show all the symptoms of terminal cupidity. During the past five years, they have used every stratagem -- including illegal collusion to restrict the movement of free agents -- to keep their hired help from gaining more of baseball's skyrocketing revenues. They have cried poverty but refused to let the players take a gander at the books...