Word: banned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Yesterday was the first day of construction at the Seabrook site since July 21, when the Nuclear Regulator Commission (NRC) halted construction pending a hearing on the plant's cooling system. The NRC lifted the construction ban last Thursday, after the Environmental Protection Agency approved the cooling system...
...House vote began, the cumulative tally flashed electronically on two of the chamber's walls. Soon the legislators were on their feet, shouting, jeering, laughing. The count was almost a tie: 203 for maintaining the arms ban and 202 for lifting...
...lift the embargo, full-scale arms transfers to Turkey can resume shortly. The embargo originally had been imposed to pressure the Turks to withdraw their troops from Cyprus, which they had invaded in 1974 to protect the island's Turks from the Greek majority. But the arms ban accomplished little except to damage Turkey's ties to NATO and aggravate the country's domestic political instability...
...like all hurricanes to bear women's names, Government meteorologists this year will christen storms not only Aletta but Bud and Daniel and Fico. Item: A national chain, Sambo's Restaurants, has run into stern resistance in New England, where civil rights groups are trying to ban the name because of allegedly racist overtones. Item: A young man who asked a Minnesota court to change his name to "1069" was recently refused and rebuked by the judge for proposing "an offense to human dignity" and seeking a name that was "inherently totalitarian." Strong language...
...ordinary New Yorkers, the biggest problem afoot has been not fiscal but fecal. Unlike New York City's money troubles, the spread of dog excrement on the streets and parks long seemed insoluble and irreversible. Last week, after years of fruitless public clamor for an ordinance to ban canine littering, a state law went into effect that would levy a $25 fine on dog owners who let their pets defecate in any public area without cleaning up the act; the law applies to cities of more than 400,000. In New York City, 2,500 municipal workers, from cops...