Word: restrictions
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When those of differing opinions clash in a deliberative democracy, society may need to restrict certain actions to preserve order and protect citizens. Nobody has a "right" to practice sodomy any more than one has a "right" to play checkers. Both actions can be discouraged or curtailed if necessary...
...global timber machine chews up the world's wilderness, the Tongass had become a test of whether even the richest nation on earth can muster the will to control the forces of deforestation. Logging supporters, and that would include Alaska's Republican Senator Murkowski, seethe over any attempts to restrict harvesting of what they view as a renewable resource...
Perhaps some wonder if there is anything we can do to halt the spread of this political disaster or, more importantly, to restrict the hegemony of the countries that have already wandered down that dark path. The events of the last month should have taught us that there...
Clinton has been consistent on the subject of kids and smoking--he wants to restrict cartoonish ads, pressure businesses to do away with cigarette machines and classify nicotine as a drug that is subject to federal regulation, all of which Dole opposes. "What I seek to highlight is the difference in our policies," Clinton said last week...
...open the airwaves to a flood of hard-liquor ads," fumed Democratic Congressman Joseph Kennedy II of Massachusetts, who is well aware that his family's fortune was fortified with liquor profits. He has introduced a bill that would not only ban TV ads for hard liquor but also restrict those for beer and wine. "When advertising shows the way to get a pretty girl or guy is to suck down a brew," he says, "we want to take it off the air except after 10 p.m." President Clinton favors continuing the ad ban but has not endorsed Kennedy...