Word: restrictionism
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There was one restriction on my answering machine. After three unanswered rings, the machine would kick in, and there was no way to change the setting. Since our room had new desks and chairs that fit snugly into each other, we knew that our answering machine would be a problem...
| Some feared that the battle could escalate into a full-blown trade war. But tempers cooled last week when the two sides reached an interim agreement. The U.S. is resuming shipments of untreated beef, totaling $15 million annually, which the E.C. had included in the ban because U.S. inspectors refused...
The amendment concerning the constitutionality of ROTC should have been defeated in order to allow an intelligent discussion of the military's policies. Despite the restriction on commentary not relevant to the issue of constitutionality, speakers at the last council meeting were allowed to spout off about the issue's...
And religious groups are found on both sides ofthe issue. One pro-choice brief was filed by theNational Coalition of American Nuns, Catholics fora Free Choice and 51 prominent practicingCatholics. The statement argues that the contextfor the restriction of abortion has no basis inCatholicism.
Where the N.R.A. has always revealed its nature as a paranoid lobby, a political anachronism, is in its rigid ideological belief that any restriction on the private ownership of any kind of hand-held gun leads inexorably to total abolition of all gun ownership -- that, if today the U.S. Government...