Word: restrictionism
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The test involves comparing the DNA of blood, semen or hair roots found at the scene with the DNA of a suspect. What makes it virtually foolproof is that no two people (other than identical twins) have the same genetic characteristics. While considering this fact in 1983, Alec Jeffreys, a...
Last year the President adroitly headed off a similar defeat by announcing an Executive Order that imposed some of the sanctions included in a bill then pending in Congress. Among them: a restriction on loans by Americans to South African government agencies and a ban on the export of most...
Harvard has been intransigent with the patrolmen before. When the union filed a grievance last year about the restriction of an officer's duties, the University did not respond until forced into binding arbitration. The federal arbitrator declared that the union's grievance was reasonable and found in its favor...
The Harvard effort, spearheaded by attorney Peter L. Malkin '55 and Sen. Lowell M. Weicker (R-Conn.), got around the restriction by securing Harvard the man, not Harvard the college, the 33rd slot in the Great Americanstamp series. As such, the teaching elder whobequeathed his library and 800 English pounds...
He indicated a willingness to amend the ABM treaty to tighten some of its imprecisions and extend the period of notice each side would have to give before withdrawing from the treaty. This willingness to dicker with Moscow over the ABM treaty is being interpreted as a sweetener, a hint...