"ban" = "requirement"

[Laurence Horn]

At 10:13 AM -0400 5/5/10, Joel S. Berson wrote:
>A scroll on New England Cable News this morning referred to the
>lifting of the "boil water ban."
>
>Joel
>
Maybe they were thinking of it as a "boil water bann".  It was a
public announcement, after all.

LH

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