Word: restrictions
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...Lowell's move to restrict Jewish admissions was based on the idea that it is harder to build a tightly-knit community from a body of students with widely varying backgrounds and interests. Some difference was good, but equally important was common culture...
...leaders of neo-traditionalism, the stylistic fortress that has long held at bay the barbarians of commercial jazz, have lately found themselves in a quandary. The very walls that protect the purity of their music have come to restrict its reach. Carefully, saxophonist Redman is trying to nudge open the gates a bit--not to commercial dreck, but to a less doctrinaire approach. Only an artist with Redman's extravagant formal skills could pull off such a gambit. The cuts jump from the strangely fitting eastern drone of Leap of Faith to the modern bounce of Stoic Revolutions, all woven...
...long after Governor George W. Bush named him Texas health commissioner in September 1997, William ("Reyn") Archer decided to restrict sales of dietary supplements containing ephedrine. It was a bold but logical move for the head of a nationally applauded state agency. An amphetamine-like stimulant derived from a Chinese herb, ephedrine was widely used for weight loss, but it seemed to pose serious health risks. Products with ephedrine had in the previous five years been linked to eight deaths and more than 1,400 health problems in Texas alone...
...destructive potential of conflict has grown, the political efforts to prevent and restrict it have intensified. Especially in Europe and among the major nuclear powers, a variety of measures, ranging from arms limitations to special procedures for dialogue, have reinforced the strategic deterrence underwritten by the major powers' nuclear weaponry...
...same technologies that have made war so lethal now prevent or restrict it by shrinking the distance and differences between peoples and nations. The "global village" creates opportunities for greater mutual understanding and an identity as a larger community, and reduces the acceptance of violence and aggression. As a result, war is increasingly constrained by law and the public's assessment of just causes and acceptable costs...