Word: barring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with the A.D. and Phoenix S.K. final clubs, which have also recently decided to bar non-members, fear of liability issues prompted the policy change, Owl members said...
Shortly after the A.D. decided to bar non-members Jan. 20, Duffell said he did not think the Owl would follow suit...
...final club decided last week to indefinitely bar non-members from entering the club, Owl members said yesterday...
...have weakened the office confided to his care. One notes certain parallels with the impeachment 131 years ago of Andrew Johnson. Each President was vulnerable: Johnson because of wretched public actions, Clinton because of wretched private ones. In each case the Senate, after due deliberation, refused to lower the bar to conviction--a bar raised high by the framers in order to confine impeachment to "great and dangerous offenses" and "attempts to subvert the Constitution." In each case the Senate thereby saved the constitutional separation of powers by declining to make impeachment so easy that, as James Madison had warned...
...brown room with its wide wallboards and alcove bed open backward into stages of increasing light. The window casts a bright lozenge of sun on the worn tiles of the floor beyond. The light slants, giving De Hooch an opportunity to complicate his verticals and horizontals with a diagonal bar of shadow cast by the window transom on the half-open shutter. Some surfaces receive the light directly, others obliquely, thus enabling him to render subtle variations, gleams and sparkles of light on edges and irregularities...