Word: restrictions
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...damaging - specter looms: the return of protectionism. In a recent report, the World Bank found that although the G-20 nations pledged themselves to avoid protectionist measures when they met in Washington last November, no fewer than 17 of them have, since then, "implemented measures whose effect is to restrict trade at the expense of other countries...
...concerns about the constitutionality of the Judiciary Committee's bill, which would authorize the Justice Department to sue for the return of bonuses given to employees of companies that have received more than $10 billion from the government. The legislation, if passed, would also allow the Attorney General to restrict future payments to 10 times the average non-management wages at companies receiving TARP funds. "Congress has let expediency override common sense," said Representative Lamar Smith, the top Judiciary Committee Republican. "Congress already has learned the hard way the unintended consequences of rushing to legislate without adequate expert testimony...
...during a student's high school years. It doesn't limit teachers to abstinence-only lessons; rather, it allows each school district to make its own decisions about what sex education should involve. But with federal funding limited to abstinence-only programs, local districts have a powerful incentive to restrict their sex-education curriculum...
...Harvard group comes to us for a space, they need to go to the License Commission,” Smith said. “We don’t run these functions, so it’s also the responsibility of the renting group to obtain the license to restrict and regulate their parties...
...Organizations like the American Civil Liberties Union are pushing bills to restrict fusion centers' access to data, most notably in New Mexico, where opponents hope to make government snooping a costly offense. Legislation has been introduced in Santa Fe that would prohibit any New Mexico law enforcement agency from collecting information about the religious, political and social associations of law-abiding New Mexicans. And in what would be a first for the nation, the bill would allow private citizens to sue law enforcement agencies for damages over the unauthorized collection of such data...