Word: suppressing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Russian Federation is always lurking just below the surface of daily life. Even the top echelons of Russia's government are concerned. According to a source in the Defense Ministry, armed forces Chief of Staff General Mikhail Kolesnikov recently ordered plans to be drawn up to use troops to suppress any explosions of civil unrest...
...same synergies that empower microbes also weaken our defenses against them. Heat, increased ultraviolet radiation resulting from ozone depletion, and pollutants like chlorinated hydrocarbons all suppress the disease-battling immune systems--both for humans and for other animals. Epstein, who is one of the principal authors of the upcoming WHO study, notes that in recent years variants of the class of viruses that includes measles have killed seals in the North Sea, lions in the Serengeti and horses in Australia--three very different animals widely scattered around the globe...
...This is a powerful statistic, but one should also note that in the majority of these violent, drug-induced crimes, alcohol was the only drug. And the four drugs the students are charged with are not known to contribute in any way to violent behavior (many would contend they suppress violent behavior...
...network withdrawals drew a tight-lipped response from Robert Pitofsky, chairman of the Federal Trade Commission. "I support comparative advertising," Pitofsky says. "I hope that this is not an occasion to suppress comparative ads overall." Perhaps not, but the rat-a-tat of battling drug claims has been making heads feel like the morning after. Hey, has anyone got an aspirin...
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...