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...ventures owned by the banks that issue cards. Trouble is, the government says, the same powerful banks control both associations. The biggest banks have been able to sit on one brand's board of directors and hold great sway in the other. That's not all. Visa and MasterCard restrict their member banks from issuing competing cards from Amex and Discover as well. This circle of control, the feds say, bars real competition from the marketplace, and it has kept technological leaps and new credit services from benefiting American wallets...
When considering education reforms, we should not restrict the drawing board to improving what already exists or incorporating new ways of learning. We should also consider bringing back what we have lost...
HASCS will not restrict Napster downloads...
...however, that order (although not the job) was eliminated. A century of Freudian psychology and medical progress was harsh on exorcism. Conditions previously thought diabolical, such as Tourette's syndrome, proved medically treatable. In the wake of Vatican II, many American Catholics "wanted to restrict things to only a scientific way of knowing" and shied away from the rite's supernatural literalism, says the Rev. Kazimierz Kowalski, an exorcist in Manhattan. Notes the Rev. James LeBar, who took up the work in 1989: "The whole thing kind of went down to embers...
...intent. Yet many questions remain: What was wrong with Jonathan Burton? Was his killing a horrible accident or a case of vigilante malice? And what are the lessons for airlines dealing with the growing incidence of air rage? "The question to ask is whether the flight attendants attempted to restrict the Good Samaritans from using undue force," says California aviation lawyer Phillip Kolczynski. "Are we reaching the point where we need police officers on board, or do we need to start arming crew members with Mace or Taser guns...