Word: safely
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WASHINGTON: Flesh fanciers everywhere toasted last year's Supreme Court ruling that made the Net safe for porn. Now Playboy is hoping the high court's evident distaste for "indecency" laws will help the company strike down similar rules for cable TV. Currently the FCC says so-called indecent shows can be broadcast only from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. "They're told either scramble their dirty pictures or put them on when there are fewer kids in the audience," explains Bruce Taylor, president of the National Law Center for Children and Families. The Playboy Channel has sued the government...
...When court appeals and amicae briefs are the most important locus for lawmaking, the initiative system has been hopelessly debased. Lacking in legislative finesse, ineffective propositions lead voters to despair and stop voting, or, more wisely, vote "no" on bills regardless of their content. Then, the status quo is safe--and any chance for reform is on the ropes...
...when Harvard jumped out to a 11-2 lead 3:58 into last night's Game, it is safe to say that no one in the building aware of the team's recent history expected the Crimson to gallop away with a blowout win. Giants rarely go down with just one blow...
Folkman says endostatin and angiostatin arerelatively safe compared to other forms ofconventional chemotherapy...
...bond funds suddenly so popular? The Asian economic crisis chased some investors to perceived safe havens like Treasury bonds. But mainly it's a play on interest rates, which could reach dramatic new lows if inflation continues to subside. When rates fall, bond funds excel. That was the case in '95, when T-bond funds returned an average 22%. But there's an insidious side to bond funds even when rates are falling: the income streams they provide decline because fund managers must buy new bonds that pay ever lower interest. The $1 billion PIMCO High Yield Fund paid...