Word: restrictions
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...proposal deals with Microsoft's Internet Explorer software, which was at the center of the antitrust case. However, Microsoft has been found guilty of using its monopoly power in a wide range of areas, browsing being only the most prominent. Only three elements of Microsoft's proposal would restrict the company's actions in general ways: Microsoft would offer other software vendors timely access to technical information, would not withhold already-written software for other operating systems in order to gain additional concessions and would continue to sell old versions of Windows after new features are introduced...
...leaves Sierra Leone at the mercy of thugs far worse than Milosevic's, but eliminating the danger requires a military commitment far larger than anyone is prepared to make. Even if the cash-strapped Nigerians can be persuaded to send their ECOMOG contingents back, those were previously able to restrict the rebels' advance on the capital, but not to eliminate them as a fighting force. So even in the best-case scenario, now, Sierra Leone will go back to square...
...expand its laptop program to high school students. In the meantime, most of the kinks have been worked out. Some students were using their computers to goof off or visit unauthorized websites. But teachers have the ability to track where students have been on the Web and to restrict them. "That is the worst when they disable you," says eighth-grade honors student Jamie Bassell. "You go through laptop withdrawal." The habit is rubbing off on parents. "I taught my mom to use e-mail," says another eighth-grader, Katherine Hypolite. "And now she's taking computer classes...
Some members argued that the proposed change in definition of the council's power would unnecessarily restrict the council' s actions. It proposed removing language authorizing the council to act on any matter "that can be decided or considered by an officer, office, or official body within the University...
...Bromley Professor of Law Arthur R. Miller at Harvard Law School (HLS)--who was forced to remove his online lectures from the web-based Concord University School of Law late last fall-- is not pleased with the new policies. He says the new policy will further restrict professor's academic freedom...