Word: suppressant
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This insistence that "bad" speech is a direct cause of "bad" behavior was not new; 19th-century social purists and some leading conservative feminists fought to suppress "vicious" literature, as well as information about contraception. But a century later, the revival of a feminist anti-porn movement coincided with the election of Ronald Reagan and the rise of conservative Republicanism buoyed by an intolerant religious right. Left-wing protests of pornography and "hate" speech, in general, helped legitimate growing right-wing censorship campaigns. Their targets differed--activists on the right focused on sex and AIDS education, the study of evolution...
...Mexicans say they expelled him because they feared they could not prevent him from running his business while awaiting trial. But there is also the issue of the judges, police officials and possibly even Cabinet members who may have been accepting his bribes. In Mexico the pressure to suppress Garcia Abrego's information about corruption could be overwhelming, so it is more likely to come out in a U.S. court. The expulsion may thus be a reflection of Zedillo's commitment to rooting out corruption. "There is a better chance that the truth will emerge in the U.S.," says...
...most people can do without. (Of course, it can be tempting, not to say cathartic, to take a good whack at the guy responsible for the 12 most boring and/or humiliating hours of your semester. In extreme cases you can always call the CUE office and request that they suppress your most vitriolic remarks...
...next seven years, Rabin retreated to Labor's back bench until a national-unity government turned to him as Defense Minister in 1984. In this post, he proved implacable in his determination to suppress the Palestinian intifadeh, the uprising against Israeli rule that exploded across the occupied territories in 1987. When the beatings and deportations he ordered proved ineffectual, Rabin decided that 1.7 million captive people could not be ruled by force, and he made the idea of a negotiated peace the theme of his 1992 campaign against Likud Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir. To achieve peace, he told the voters...
According to this rule, a professor may suppress any kind of speech in his class that he deems inappropriate, including the sort of demonstration that occurred in Government...