Word: forbiddenness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...into her early teens. The experience left her a borderline sociopath, and since she is both gorgeous and unusually bright, she can cause a lot of trouble. Her beloved adoptive uncle, an old police lieutenant, is murdered as the novel begins. She undertakes a lone-wolf investigation, having been forbidden to do so, and wanders like a gun-packing Alice into a mirror world of characters as clever and without conscience as she. A coven of rich, carnivorous old ladies is both scammed upon and scamming, but can its doddering members really have anything to do with a series...
...drive rates down. Don't count your discounts yet, though. Regional phone companies like Ameritech in the Midwest are complaining about the MCI proposal, saying that if MCI gets to offer local service, the regionals should be able to jump into the long-distance market, something they're currently forbidden from doing...
Such notions stirred not only predictable opposition from the Vatican but also an uproar in the Islamic world, where abortion is generally forbidden. Belatedly, conference supporters tried to fend off a Muslim boycott. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak called his old friend King Fahd of Saudi Arabia, who was meeting with the Council of Ulama, his nation's highest body of religious authorities. But Mubarak's effort was futile. On the following day, the council condemned the Cairo conference as a "ferocious assault on Islamic society" and forbade Muslims from attending. Sudan, Lebanon and Iraq then joined Saudi Arabia in announcing...
...Federal Aviation Administration has forbidden airline companies from nine countries to fly into or out of the U.S., because the FAA says they do not maintain internationally recognized aviation safety standards. The neglectful nine: Belize, the Dominican Republic, Gambia, Ghana, Honduras, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Uruguay and Zaire. In addition, airlines from Bolivia, El Salvador, Guatemala and Netherlands Antilles are on the FAA's watch list. The crackdown on foreign air carriers is a result of the 1990 crash in New York of a Columbian Avianca airliner that had run out of fuel...
...past 14 years, scientists in the U.S. could only marvel at such complex choreography. To learn any more about it, they would have had to conduct experiments on human embryos and aborted fetal tissue. But federal funding for any such research was forbidden by the pro-life Administrations of Ronald Reagan and George Bush. Last year President Clinton quietly called for an end to his predecessors' ban and asked the National Institutes of Health to develop rules to guide the research. And since February an expert NIH advisory panel has been debating the details of what is sure...