Word: edicts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...frantic attempt to find stopgap solutions, the government of Mexico's outgoing President threw a one-two punch that has now transformed this confusion into surreal chaos. It issued a vague edict forbidding Americans to take home certain foods from Mexican markets, and it imposed ill-conceived currency restrictions designed to stem the tide of money flowing out of the country. The result: border towns on both sides are suffering even more...
...ventures and often subsidized much of their financing. American firms, on the other hand, have been a little more hesitant. Memories of past hostile policies by the Indian government still linger in American corporations. IBM, for example, pulled out of India in 1977 rather than comply with an official edict requiring the company to relinquish 60% of the ownership of its Indian operations...
...teen-age schoolgirls violate the sanctity of the room and go AWOL from their parents' code by valiantly swigging a blend of gin, vodka and Fresca. In a duel of social proprieties, a daughter defies her mother's edict that she attend a dance that will enhance her status in the Junior League and opts to attend a performance of Saint Joan with her spinster aunt. Still later, as an Amherst student photographs his aunt's chinaware in the room, he tells her that he is doing an anthropology paper on "the eating habits of vanishing cultures...
Jack Valenti, 59, president of the Motion Picture Association of America, on why Third World countries do not produce films: "You cannot by edict, bayonet or nuclear threat force somebody to make a good movie...
...Anglo-Saxon creation first transplanted to Florence in 1733, was soon under attack by the Catholic Church. The Masonic principles of nonsectarianism and ab stract belief in a "Great Architect of the Universe" were viewed as an intolerable threat by Pope Clement XII, who issued the first papal edict that ordered excommunication of any Catholics who became Masons. Masons were often regarded as subversive political freethinkers by the Italian principalities. By the mid-19th century, in fact, many of the most prominent nationalist leaders of the Italian risorgimento were Masons. Among them: Giuseppe Mazzini and the notoriously antipapal Giuseppe Garibaldi...