Word: restrictions
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...photo shoot was anorexic. There is an inherent pressure in the modeling agency to be a certain size. A size 10 is often considered plus size for modeling,i she explains. In Laurenis experience, modeling agents have encouraged extreme anorexic behavior, including one agent who told her to restrict her diet to water...
...Blinded by Might, former Moral Majority staff members Cal Thomas and Ed Dobson ask whether it is better to send "money to an organization vowing to pass legislation that would restrict the practice [of abortion] or volunteer at a local crisis pregnancy center." Their implied answer is clearly the latter. And there is mounting evidence that even within the Christian right, that perspective is winning the day. In the late 1990s, the hyperpolitical Christian Coalition went into steep decline, while Promise Keepers, an organization that believes many of the same things but shuns political action as the route to achieve...
...April 19, 1999, the U.S. Trade Representative imposed the punitive tariffs on nine types of European goods. To be sure, trade experts outside the European Union generally agree that the restrictive banana policies do violate free-trade rules. Indeed, four global trade panels have reached that conclusion over the years. But restrictive trade policies are hardly peculiar to Europe. The U.S. has its own, notably those that restrict the free access of sugar and peanuts to the American market...
...really one of them. Says South Carolina Citizens for Life executive director Holly Gatling: "We urge pro-life people to vote for any candidate in the Republican primary except John McCain." Part of what's fueling the activists' ire is McCain's call to ban soft money and restrict third-party "issue" ads. They see it as a major threat to their clout...
...trying to protect mountaintop telescopes from the encroaching glare of urban sprawl, is fast becoming a national concern. Legislation to "bag the beam," as one campaign refers to it, is pending in four states, including New York and Massachusetts. Last summer Texas and New Mexico enacted tough laws to restrict outdoor lights, and just last week officials in Fauquier County, Va., joining hundreds of regional enforcement efforts, voted unanimously in favor of similar restrictions. Even Inuits living 200 miles north of the Arctic Circle have reportedly begun to complain about the lights...