Word: forbiddingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Recent Threat. Proposition 15 could also force the closing of the three nuclear plants now operating in California. It would forbid existing plants to operate at more than 60% of capacity unless federal limits on liability in case of an accident are raised above the recently extended $560 million ceiling. It would also further reduce power output by 10% a year unless two-thirds of the state's legislators endorsed waste-disposal and safety measures. Many believe that the two-thirds approval required in the legislature constitutes an impassable barrier...
They are members of the Forever Family, a youth-oriented evangelistic group. They say they espouse a return to a primitive "New Testament" brand of Christianity. With apparent success, they forbid drinking, drugs and premarital sex. Thus far, they may have made more enemies than converts. Their hard-driving proselytizing has led to arrests for harassment and obstructing sidewalks. Lately, they have had vigilantism to contend with as well. On Feb. 12,.four carloads of teen-age toughs invaded the sect's center in Wilkes-Barre and went on a rampage. They tossed furniture, spread garbage, and broke most...
There were no endurance races sneaking rides on car bumpers, no style points allotted to the technique of your driveway shoveling, and heaven forbid, no contests of throwing snowballs at moving Mack trucks...
...America standing up for her national pride and democratic heritage, defending her self-image with force if necessary, as in the Mayaguez incident. This policy is identical in substance with that of Ford and Kissinger; Moynihan was merely indiscreet enough to say publicly what the exigencies of detente forbid the administration from expressing. Moynihan was sacrificed symbolically, but conservative Americans need not fear: the policy he supports will survive until Americans recognize the need for reconciliation with the vast majority of the world's people...
...town of Nyack, N.Y., Aronson's study is filled with hundreds of sketches for the show. Each one is intricately painted. Some, including half a dozen potential stage curtains, are silk-screened on cotton. Some are done on rice paper, but New York City's fire laws forbid their use in the theater...