Word: restrictionism
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When McDonald's executives contest the charges of restriction of consumer choice and cultural imperialism, Boas and Chain give them enough rope to hang themselves. Company spokesmen point out, for example, that the McDonald's in London serve tea, and that advertisers in Japan, out of deference to the Japanese...
Effective January 1 this year has been a new Senate rule, aimed to tighten the restriction of newsletter content to legislative rather than "political" matters. Personal references to a senator--his name, any personal pronoun or the ubiquitous "The Senator"--now are limited to no more than five per page...
Some senators and their staff lately have begun to question the merits of the restriction, wondering privately how the committee arrived at the figure five. The press secretary to a prominent Southern senator asked recently, "If I inadvertently write down six references on a page, does that make the newsletter...
American anxiety over porn is little more than a century old. Early America had few obscenity laws. The new nation's first recorded court decision did not come until 1815, when six hapless Philadelphians were convicted of showing for profit an indecent painting. The first federal restriction came in 1842...
The basic premises of Forman's film are also what by common consent we now call fascist (although it bears only tangential relation to "fascist" regimes of the thirties). That is, it preaches violence over due process, irrationality over rationality, and might over right. There is nothing in this film...