Word: restrictionism
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While no city ordinance sets a time restriction on movies in Cambridge, Calnan said the regulation of show times falls under the jurisdiction of the licensing board. Most theaters, she added, hold a special permit to show movies on Sundays.
The saddest effect of the vote is that it unavoidably discriminates against poor women seeking abortions, without placing the same restriction on those who can afford them. No one can deny that this goes against traditional concepts of justice and equity; nonetheless, this is an extraordinary situation, where larger considerations...
In 1946, leaving his wife and infant son Peter behind, Kenyatta returned to Kenya to work for African self-rule. He soon emerged as the strongest of the colony's black political leaders, and within a few years was caught up in the controversy over the Mau Mau. After a...
Rosovsky concedes, however, that those students who only looked at the Core superficially would understandably come away less than satisfied. College, he says, is a part of a maturing process, a time when students learn to make choices for themselves. "They want to maximize that ability" to make choices, he...
The Kremlin's crackdown seems to be successful; the dissident movement has fallen to its lowest level of activity in several years. But the new policy may contribute to the strains in U.S.-Soviet relations. Indeed, Washington has warned that detente, SALT and the easing of current trade restriction...