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At the time of our podcast recording this week, San Diego was poised to head to the most restrictive purple tier, which would tighten rules for businesses.
VOSD PODCAST: ARE STUDENTS PEOPLE?NATE JOHNSEPTEMBER 18, 2020VOICE OF SAN DIEGOEven states that have been quite restrictive in how they allow people to vote understand that the pandemic has changed the game.
WHY YOU SHOULD VOTE AS EARLY AS POSSIBLE (AND HOW TO DO IT)JOHN KENNEDYSEPTEMBER 17, 2020POPULAR-SCIENCEUltimately, because the law is permissive, it is in fact highly restrictive of corporations acting fairly for all their stakeholders because it hands authority to investors and financial markets for corporate control.
50 YEARS LATER, MILTON FRIEDMAN’S SHAREHOLDER DOCTRINE IS DEADJAKEMETHSEPTEMBER 13, 2020FORTUNEIt could be one of the most restrictive internet laws in the world.
BRAZIL’S “FAKE NEWS” BILL WON’T SOLVE ITS MISINFORMATION PROBLEMAMY NORDRUMSEPTEMBER 10, 2020MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEWNo one on earth has been spared from more restrictive international travel.
THESE ARE THE COUNTRIES AMERICANS CAN TRAVEL TO RIGHT NOW WITHOUT A VISAYOUYOU ZHOUSEPTEMBER 4, 2020QUARTZSome of its provisions were unusually restrictive, and the penalty of treason was attached to the breach of any of them.
THE POLITICAL HISTORY OF ENGLAND - VOL. X.WILLIAM HUNTThere is a certain restrictive bar that interposes when there is this intimacy of family connections.
THE WASTED GENERATIONOWEN JOHNSONThese, goaded by restrictive union practices, notably the closed shop, appealed to the courts for relief.
A HISTORY OF TRADE UNIONISM IN THE UNITED STATESSELIG PERLMANNo ameliorative, no palliative, no restrictive, no remedial measure will avail.
THE OUTLINE OF HISTORY: BEING A PLAIN HISTORY OF LIFE AND MANKINDHERBERT GEORGE WELLSThe restrictive policy won by no means universal assent in the mother country.
THE OLD NORTHWESTFREDERIC AUSTIN OGGWORDS RELATED TO RESTRICTIVE
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