Word: forbidden
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Manila hotel ballroom was festooned with red Chinese lanterns last week, and behind the podium hung a huge black and white photo of Communist Chinese workers and soldiers on a sightseeing tour of the Forbidden City. The meeting was not, however, a rally for Mao, but a gathering of 419 Evangelical Protestants from 22 nations intent on spreading the Gospel to the People's Republic...
...last week HEW reversed itself. Outgoing HEW Secretary Caspar Weinberger announced new rules that would permit hundreds of studies involving fetuses to go ahead. The rules, which apply to all projects funded by HEW, do not give researchers unrestricted rights to experiment on the unborn. Doctors still will be forbidden to carry out any experiment that would end the life of a fetus that had survived abortion, or to conduct any studies that involve keeping fetuses alive artificially -unless they were aimed at preserving the lives of premature babies in general. Researchers would also be prohibited from attempting in vitro...
...made a gesture to the unions to help win their support. It means that workers on the lower end of the pay scale will get a larger proportionate increase, which will help erode pay differentials between skilled and unskilled workers. Both privately owned and state-run firms will be forbidden to raise prices to pay for increases beyond the ?6 limit. But instead of seeking immediate legal power to fine employers who do not comply, Labor pledged to push for as yet unspecified legislation for enforcement only if voluntary compliance fails and "the pay limit is endangered...
...middle-class Middlesex town called Pinner, where he was born Reginald Kenneth Dwight. The lonely, lumpy, myopic only child of an R.A.F. squadron leader, he was too shy "to say boo to a goose." He was so out of favor with his straight-backed dad that he was forbidden to kick a soccer ball in the garden lest he wreck the rose bushes. He was refused permission to purchase mohair sweaters and Hush Puppies shoes, status gear he devoutly hoped would help him gain acceptance in the local smart set in the late '50s and early...
...Blows, 4:15, 7:35, 11. Forbidden Games, 6, 9:25, tonight only; Room Service, 4, 7:15, 10:35, Top Hat, 5:25, 8:40, Friday and Saturday: Shoot The Plano Player, 4:10, 7:45, Odd Man Out, 5:45, 9:20, Sunday and Monday...