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...amended City Charter makes it clear that the City manager and his staff is to handle municipal affairs and authorize civil servants to do specific jobs. The City councillors, by law, are forbidden to tamper with this process at the risk of a $500 fine or a six month prison sentence. Violators also are forbidden to serve the City in any future capacity, elective or otherwise...
...radiator like a panther in the jungle, waiting for a silverfish so small it could hardly be seen to come out so he could pounce. It was really a very nice cat, and when a bewildered-looking man from Buildings and Grounds came checking for pets--pets are strictly forbidden in Harvard buildings, a rule slightly less ridiculous than the signs against the presence of women in the billiard rooms of some of the once all-male Houses--we told him we were keeping the cat overnight for a cousin who was out of town, or some such story...
Captain Kawas radioed Tel Aviv's Lod International Airport, only to be told that it was forbidden for him to overfly Israel. "But I have been hijacked, and the hijacker insists on landing in Israel. I am going to land whether you like it or not." After a 20-minute pause, Lod gave Kawas landing instructions. Moments afterward the plane touched down and Israeli troops seized the hijacker, later identified as Mohammed Mahmoud Al-Toumi, 37, a merchant with a Libyan passport, no ostensible links to any terrorist unit, and an obvious overdose of alcohol. Said a stewardess...
...over Baltimore harbor. The two projects were financed by a $220 million bond issue approved by the state legislature in 1967, but both ran into multimillion-dollar cost overruns?an extra $40 million for the bay bridge alone. Consulting firm for both projects: J.E. Greiner Co., which is currently forbidden by the state department of transportation to work on public Maryland projects, largely because of complaints about the cost overruns on the bay span...
...permitted to refuse overtime work. Workers complain that long hours hurt their health and home life. Managements contend that mandatory overtime is necessary to keep assembly lines moving smoothly. The union's reply: G.M., Ford and Chrysler operate profitably in Canada and Europe, where involuntary overtime is forbidden...