Word: forbiddenness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Current Republican legislation will curtail regulatory tyranny. Not only will the EPA's plans to make water cleaner be halted, but the EPA will be forbidden from enforcing current regulations regarding storm water runoff, sewage overflow and toxic dumping. Hundreds of millions of dollars that the EPA provides to assist states in paying for water and sewage treatment plants will be eliminated. The EPA's influence in curbing radon in drinking water and cancer-causing substances in food will be eviscerated. Guidelines and programs to decrease air pollution will be scrapped or reduced in funding. Even the ban on chlorofluorocarbons...
...nearly a month. For the next several days, Yeltsin was in virtual isolation, seeing only his doctors, family and bodyguards. His aides, looking somber, gave assurances that the President was still in charge, but it was unclear how he could be making decisions and reviewing documents when aides were forbidden to see him. Clearly, Yeltsin's condition is serious, and that prompts a serious question: even if he survives physically, can he survive politically? One way or another, the era of Boris Yeltsin seems to be coming...
...like sensory deprivation. Contact with family and friends has been limited to a nightly 15-minute phone call, monitored by sheriff's deputies, and the five-hour conjugal visits on Saturdays. The deputies collect the jurors' room keys each night and routinely search their belongings for diaries or other forbidden items. When a juror got permission to celebrate her wedding anniversary by having dinner with her husband in the hotel restaurant, two security guards watched over them throughout the meal...
What gets a movie the dread NC-17 rating these days? Normally the reasons children are forbidden to see films are explicit sex and spectacular spasms of violence. In the case of Showgirls, though, the list of no-nos might read, "Obscene level of incompetence, excessive inanity in the story line, gross negligence of the viewer's intelligence, a prurient interest in the quick buck...
...long as the University takes certain precautions, the committee wrote that there is no reason why such stock ties should be forbidden...