Word: restrictionism
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True, this restriction slightly differs from other interhouse restrictions in that it singles out the students of 29 Garden St. But what the staff overlooks in its specious Weld analogy is that no kid in his right mind would stroll up across Cambridge Common in the driving sleet at 7...
"I don't think that the concentrations canclaim that there is any statutory restriction thatwould prevent them from taking two or three moreconcentrators," he says.
Such nativist sentiments only grew after the Civil War. The once vast frontier seemed less vast, and economic recessions raised fears that cheap foreign laborers might take American jobs. There was also the openly racist argument that some newcomers, Asians especially, could not be "assimilated." In 1882 Congress passed the...
Increasing the legal prohibitions against use of alcohol by minors has the same effect. Setting a higher restriction increases prevention, even if adherence to the law is not 100 percent. This rationale also justified raising the drinking age from 18 to 21.
Freeman Dicks, a work group member and smoker, said he believed the new restriction was a good step.