Word: forbidden
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Another group applied to the legislature, asking that they be allowed to work for themselves one day a week and so buy their freedom. No one answered the appeals. Though the Massachusetts legislature has been offered various bills abolishing the slave trade, all have been defeated. Other colonies have forbidden the trade, however, and this April the Continental Congress reaffirmed the laws by banning the importation of new slaves. But this was done mainly to strike at British trade. Cynics point out, moreover, that the present slave supply is ample. (Negro population has more than doubled since...
...perform a useful service as the first major statement by the industrialized nations about how they expect their corporations to behave elsewhere. The code may also inspire some developing countries to enact up-to-date business legislation that would outlaw exploitative business practices-just as they have long been forbidden in the nations where the multinationals were born...
Nowhere is the division more spectacular than on the issue of birth control. In 1968 Pope Paul VI issued his encyclical Humanae vitae, explicitly telling Catholics they were forbidden to use artificial methods of contraception. In 1974 a study of American Catholics showed that fully 83% did not accept such teaching. Moreover, attendance at weekly Mass dropped from 71% in 1963 to 50% in 1974; monthly confession, from...
...southern Indiana," writes Jessamyn, recalling how day after day for a year and a half her mother told her stories about courtship and farming, blizzards and Quaker meetings. "There was no pain there for me. It was nothing I once possessed and had lost; it was not a future forbidden to me." And so she was slowly wooed back to life. Eventually, she even turned her mother's gift into her own response to extinction -her writing, which celebrates the Quaker reverence for life. The Hoosier tales she published over the next several years turned...
...eliminated from the report at the request of the CIA). What is more, the President would be compelled by law to inform the committee before any significant undercover operation was undertaken-thereby giving the members a chance to object to, although not veto the enterprise. Political assassinations would be forbidden by statute, as they now are by Ford's decree. In addition, the committee would ban by law any attempt to subvert a democratic government-a step that Ford says he favors...