The rules will ban smoking in virtually all public indoor areas.

The rules banned any public appeals for the release of detainees.

As he points out, rules banning cellphones in class already exist.

The rules do not ban dry cleaners from apartment buildings.

He wanted the establishment of strict rules banning such words as offensive to good sense.

The rules have consistently banned grants for buildings with any religious component, officials said.

The Clinton administration's rules would ban most timber cutting in the areas, which make up about one-third of the national forests.

The rules will also ban top scientists from owning shares in drug or biotechnology companies.

University officials said the written rules did not specifically ban nudity, out of concern that anything so specific would only encourage it.

The rule had banned a specialist from also acting as the lead underwriter for the stock.