Word: restrictiveness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...legal wards. They are, instead, citizens who enter into a contract with the school to educate them--citizens whom Harvard never fails to treat as adults in the classroom. The terms of this contract cannot be defined solely by the administration. And in no case should those terms restrict students' choices about roommates and lifestyles...
Area residents--who said they feared the proposed complex would create traffic problems and ruin the aesthetic appeal of the neighborhood--asked the council at that time to "downzone" the area to Ordinance A-2, which would restrict new construction to single-family residences. That proposal was never approved by the council...
Some states restrict the access of guard companies to official criminal records, while others require fingerprint checks. In California nearly 20% of ! the applications for guard licenses are rejected each year because checks disclose prior criminal convictions. Yet even that kind of screening helps only to a degree. A 1989 study by the New York State Senate Committee on Crime and Correction found that 16% of guards were still hired despite such criminal backgrounds...
Researchers speculate that the greater communication between the two sides | of the brain could impair a woman's performance of certain highly specialized visual-spatial tasks. For example, the ability to tell directions on a map without physically having to rotate it appears stronger in those individuals whose brains restrict the process to the right hemisphere. Any crosstalk between the two sides apparently distracts the brain from its job. Sure enough, several studies have shown that this mental-rotation skill is indeed more tightly focused in men's brains than in women...
...compounds flood problems by moving water faster. "The water down below doesn't get a chance to get out of the way before the other water is there on top of it," observes Fred Liscum, a hydrologist with the U.S. Geological Survey. Levees built to protect towns can also restrict river flow, which in turn can force the waterway to crest and wash out the barriers on either bank. Says Robert Cox, Louisiana floodplain administrator: "You don't get rid of the water; you just pass it on downstream to the next...