Word: restrictionism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
A draft is a severe restriction on civil liberties, much more so than taxes, especially when the nation is not facing a national crisis. It is with good reason that the American Civil Liberties Union opposes the plan.
Scientists, however, have been making remarkable progress in a technique that can sharply focus their search for a desired gene. Known as restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP), the method relies on enzymes that slice DNA in distinctive patterns; families with a history of a genetic disease will tend to have...
"The reaction has been pretty negative against the Res. Ed. department. Students feel it is too much of a restriction on something done on their own free time," said Maria R. Meier, a sophomore at Stanford.
Harvard was unimpressed. Vice President for Government and Public Affairs John Shattuck, an outspoken critic of the tightening grip on academic integrity, voiced fears that the report--which did not make policy recommendations--would bring on its heels new sweeps of classification and restriction. We share those fears, and a...
Although MAC sales are now regulated, the Government can do little about the thousands of guns sold under the old classification. Declaring that the MAC "serves no purpose except to kill people," Democratic Congressman Robert Torricelli of New Jersey has introduced legislation that would make it a crime to possess...