Word: sanctions
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...reintroduce a bill requiring all motorcycle riders to wear helmets. Twelve years ago, 47 states had such laws (though not California). Most were passed in response to federal rules cutting U.S. highway funds to states without such provisions. But bike lobbies persuaded Congress in 1976 to erase the financial sanction, and more than half the states revoked or weakened their helmet laws. Over the next three years, motorcycle fatalities leaped more than 40%, according to federal figures...
...There are certain kinds of conduct which we want to discourage," he said. "If you legalize it and remove the moral sanction attached to it, a fair number of people will experiment...
...importance of first year grades in their hiring process. In an effort to assist the General Affairs Committee, the student government body, in their implementation of the resolution, recruiters were informed over the summer of the new student referendum. The Faculty did not and were not asked to sanction the non-disclosure of grades as an official School policy as was stated in the article...
China and France last month became the first nations to sanction the use of one such preparation, the French-made abortion pill called RU 486 (trade name Mifepristone). Antiabortionists in the U.S. and abroad lost no time protesting. The Washington-based National Right to Life Committee last week threatened to boycott products of any U.S. firm that attempts to market such pills. The group's ire was further raised when the New England Journal of Medicine last week gave high marks to another abortion drug, epostane, developed by Sterling Drug Inc. "These pills kill unborn babies," said committee spokesman Richard...
...then to a College-wide committee. If the all-Harvard committee approves a student's application, he or she receives a letter of endorsement signed by Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57. While students may try for the Rhodes--but not the Marshall--without Harvard's sanction, an endorsement letter strengthens their application...