Word: forbidding
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...self-love," says Author-Humorist Fran Lebowitz. "They've overweighted the sanctity of the human body. These bodies aren't temples. They're barely bodegas." Says Screenwriter Greenfeld: "It's fear of embarrassment. In Hollywood you can stuff coke up your nose until it falls off. But God forbid you should appear drunk in public...
...Nixon would again endear him to liberals in the 1970s, Ervin was profoundly conservative. He was a diehard supporter of the Viet Nam War, anti- ERA and an unswerving opponent of civil rights laws. According to Ervin's strictly states-rights' reading of the Constitution, the document ought to forbid federal civil rights intervention, as well as the no-knock search warrants and sweeping Executive privilege sought by Nixon...
...about the increasing amount of junk-bond investing by banks and by savings and loans. Says Norman Raiden, chief counsel of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board: "Junk bonds are likely to be most attractive to distressed institutions that need high yields." As a result, the Domenici bill would forbid banks and savings and loans to buy any junk bonds...
...like an explication of a "Class Notes" section in Harvard Magazine--fascinating but not penetrating. What he hasn't done--and it's this that makes The Class so contrived--is allow for the possibility that one or two of his classmates enjoy what they do or are Heaven forbid, happily married...
...unidentified Administration official hinted that if the funds were not provided directly, aid to the anti-Sandinista rebels might be supplied by unnamed Asian countries. He did not explain whether those countries would simply pass along U.S. money or use their own funds to help the contras. Congress might forbid any rerouting of support meant for such friendly nations as Thailand and Taiwan, but a country could, of course, use the U.S. funds for internal purposes and then earmark an equal amount from its own budget for the contras. Congress would then have the option of cutting off or restricting...