Word: forbiddingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...White House staff is being rebuilt. Symptomatically, Wall Street had its worst slump in months, and the dollar took a bad beating on international money markets. Congress was continuing to assert its new-found truculence. In the Senate last week, the once hawkish Appropriations Committee voted unanimously to forbid any U.S. spending for any combat activity in either Cambodia or Laos...
...urge for a clean environment has complicated matters even further. Clean-air laws, for instance, forbid the burning of oil and coal with high sulfur content. As a result, much available domestic fuel cannot be used in many localities. Insisting on environmental safeguards, groups have delayed such projects as the Alaska pipeline and nuclear power plants, further limiting the development of domestic energy sources...
Harvard will accept almost any donation, unless the donor requires that the University forbid certain activities as a condition of the gift or unless the donor tries to impose restrictions on the use of the money that would constrain the freedom of ideas. A recent offer to endow a series of lectures against careers for women was refused on these grounds, as was a gift to the Med School for "the application of music to medical cases as a treatment...
...decision resulted from a suit 13 Democratic congressmen brought against Nixon in April 1971. Basing their suit on the premise that war was never actually declared on Vietnam, they asked the court to forbid Nixon from continuing the war unless Congress declared war within 60 days...
...classification. Such a harsh rating was assigned presumably because of the scruffy slang in the film, the sort of language street kids hear and use every day. It is a part of life that they all share, but one that the censors, by some convoluted hypocrisy, would forbid them onscreen...