Word: disallowance
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Opponents of the proposed law, who have called it an invasion of individual rights, have gotten their arguments backward. What right is more basic: to indulge in a personal pleasure that injures anyone in the vicinity or to breathe clean air? The proposal would disallow smoking only when other people are involuntarily affected--in workplaces employers and employees could still agree to set aside areas for smoking. In places where passersby have no choice but to breathe the air, it is hardly unreasonable to prohibit an activity that presents such a known hazard to the public health...
Only five days after the game The Stanford Daily published a fake Daily Californian telling of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) decision to disallow the play and award the same to Stanford. Luckily for the Stanford pranksters, the Californian's press broke down the night before the parody's publication, so the parody succeeded and cheerleaders wept in public...
...final HHS audit report--released last September--cites a number of areas in which Harvard accounting procedures failed. But the basic complaint is about alleged improper "cost transfers" between various federally funded projects. One and a half million dollars of the $1.7 million the auditors want to disallow belong to this category...
...spent by those companies to lobby Congress. Under the traditional "cost-plus" system of contracting, the Pentagon could be charged for expenses such as fuel for executive jets; but a Defense Department directive issued Oct. 22 forbids companies from freely adding extraneous costs to contracts. Weinberger promised, "We will disallow all such outrageous costs...
...Federal Communications Commission has until Jan. 15 to disallow last week's auction and all future proceedings. There are 17 petitions now before the FCC, objecting to the auction mostly on grounds that selling transponders to the highest bidders is "unjustly discriminatory" and unduly inflates the prices. If the commission should agree, RCA is prepared to assign the transponders on a first-come first-served basis. They also have several to spare: Satcom IV carries 24 transponders, of which eight were assigned three years ago, two are "pre-emptable" (meaning, essentially, that they serve as backups) and seven...