Word: ban
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...plan to freeze European oil imports at last year's level and to "dissuade companies from lending themselves to transactions at excessive prices" in Rotterdam. But that stops well short of Giscard's earlier ideas to set specific, country-by-country import ceilings, and to put a flat ban on high-priced dealings in Rotterdam...
...pits of apricots and other fruits, which is used by as many as 75,000 cancer patients. Since the Federal Government has never found Laetrile to be safe and effective, it is barred from interstate distribution. Two years ago, however, a U.S. court of appeals ruled that the ban does not apply to terminally ill cancer patients. The court reasoned that since the patients were going to die anyway, the Food and Drug Act's "safe and effective" standard is irrelevant; thus the Government should not deny them the drug...
However, since the FAA showed no eagerness to lift the ban quickly, the European airlines became restive. Reason: they did not want to keep the plane on the ground, especially during the peak season of tourist travel. Although one of every three U.S.-owned DC-10s inspected had flaws in the pylon mountings (such as cracks, corrosion and serious stress in the attachment bulkheads), no similar problems were found on the European crafts. Furthermore, the European lines fly almost exclusively advanced, longer-range versions of the plane, known as the series 30 and 40, rather than the older, shorter-range...
...defying the FAA ban and signaling what amounted to a vote of confidence in the DC-10, the European airlines increased the already intense pressures on Bond either to clear the plane for takeoff in the U.S. or spell out its faults and prescribe the cure. But U.S. investigators still have serious doubts about the plane...
...skip Protestant services and go instead to the Catholic chapel of the Hofburg to hear the Vienna Boys Choir. The President then joined Brezhnev at the Soviet embassy for more talks on various military issues, including SALT III, the stalled negotiations on troop reductions in Europe and treaties to ban chemical warfare and all nuclear weapons tests. On parting, Brezhnev again stumbled on the embassy steps but was soon steadied by Carter and an aide...