Word: forbiddingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though the U.S. is running short of oil and natural gas, it has enough coal to last for hundreds of years. But environmental laws forbid burning much of the nation's available coal because it contains large quantities of sulfur. When the high-sulfur coal is burned, it gives off sulfur dioxide (SO2), an invisible gas that kills plants, corrodes metals and injures human health...
...more sterile version presents the doctor, a slick young man -- or god forbid, a woman -- punching in at 9:03 and distributing pills all day through a grilled window -- like the post office man and his eight-cent stamps. At 4:58 the doctor punches out and drives out into the suburbs where not even the answering service can find...
...Farah made us work like animals in a prison and thought they had done us a favor by giving us jobs," Lozana said. She said the average hourly wage was $1.70 and described Farah policies which restrict bathroom time and forbid conversation during working hours...
...substantial--certainly it is formidably circumscribed in implication--if, prior to words and long preceding deeds, our yearnings themselves are in such firm constraint that we no longer even wish to do that which, if we could wish it in large numbers, colleges and universities would then assuredly forbid...
That, of course, is precisely what Agnew seems convinced the Justice Department is trying to do. At the same time that his attorneys asked Judge Hoffman to stop the grand jury proceedings, they also asked him to forbid Richardson, Beall and "all officials of the U.S. Department of Justice" from giving out any information on the case. If the Justice officials denied leaking material, the lawyers asked for a full hearing to "determine the truth." The rationale of Agnew's attorneys was that the department was involved in a plot "to drive the Vice President from office...