1.   An international conference this month failed to outlaw the use of mines and allowed nations nine more years to use up stocks of dumb mines.

2.   A. The Geneva Convention outlaws use, but most nations took a reservation that allowed them to maintain stockpiles for retaliatory use.

3.   But Congress is likely to outlaw the use of federally controlled drugs for that purpose.

4.   But Japan has once again decided to remain one of the few countries in the world to outlaw the use of the contraceptive pill.

5.   Constitutional requirements that the votes of American citizens count equally also will lead courts to outlaw the use of estimates for redistricting, he said.

6.   Cole said Walls had followed the reasoning of several more recent cases, which had outlawed the use of secret evidence in other types of immigration proceedings.

7.   Florida lawmakers this year increased state oversight of elections and outlawed the use of punchcard ballots that were blamed for many of the election problems.

8.   He would outlaw the use of permanent replacements for, say, the first six months of a strike.

9.   It outlawed the use of cartoon characters such as Joe Camel in tobacco ads.

10.   Last week Britain made a few token gestures, such as outlawing the use of cattle feed containing any kind of mammalian meat or bone meal.