Word: sanctioned
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...select our leaders and to defend our borders in arms, then they are sufficiently responsible to imbibe alcoholic beverages. Further, a basic premise of American liberty is that freedom allows for the flourishing of virtue. Eighteen-year-olds should be allowed to develop temperate drinking habits under the sanction of the law. The current federal statute in this country--which restricts highway funding if states do not comply--does nothing to change the cultural mores of college students. It merely forces an entirely legitimate pastime underground. Finally, the Congressional law prohibiting campus administrators from taking a softer line toward responsible...
...imprisonment. The House rejected motions to reinstate the death penalty twice in the last four years, but in the wake of the recent string of murders in Cambridge and elsewhere in the state, liberal Massachusetts may in knee-jerk style join the 38 other states in the Union that sanction eye-for-an-eye justice...
...Those people who do drink underage are already doing so illegally. Another college sanction is not going to make a difference," said one undergraduate woman who asked not to be named...
...most liberal states in America to vote to sanction state-sponsored killing is a sad moment in this country's history...
Technically, almost all grapes from California are still under the 1984 boycott called by the United Farm Workers (UFW), the union formerly led by Chavez. The boycott was the third such economic sanction in a series of UFW boycotts dating back...