Word: forbiddingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with the President." But that is precisely the argument the Senate is tired of hearing, considering how much of its powers have slipped away to the President. Retorted Cooper: "If we accept this argument for all time, we will have placed upon ourselves a condition, a prohibition that would forbid us from ever exercising our constitutional responsibility...
...immediately challenged in suits filed by the manufacturer and processors of DDT. Another challenge came from the Environmental Defense Fund, which has been chiefly responsible for forcing the issue. It filed a court petition asking that the ban go into effect immediately and that it forbid all domestic applications of the onetime miracle...
...guidelines themselves are complex, but overall they seem too timid in requiring university action, and too prone to escape clauses when they do. They forbid both buying stock in a company just to make trouble, and secondary action against already-owned companies financially involved with socially injurious firms (part of a generally benign view of U.S. corporations and the interplay between them). They forbid universities generally to initiate proxy actions, even when they would be permitted to support those initiated by others. They forbid cooperative action by universities owning stock in the same company. Meanwhile, they allow a university...
...refuse to pay Social Security taxes or accept Social Security benefits: care of the elderly, they insist, is their religious duty. They do not want to grow rich. When oil was discovered on some Amish farms in Kansas, the owners sold the farms and moved elsewhere. Most Amish communities forbid the ownership (though not the occasional use) of automobiles, tractors and telephones. Emergency use of electricity may be permitted, but radio and television are not. They farm organically. Their consumption is so inconspicuous that merchants complain about their thrift...
...could be spent only to buy new rolling stock-hardly the railroads' sole worry. In other respects, both would attack basic problems. The Administration and the industry would permit the railroads to abandon tracks that produce little or no profit, speed up and simplify rate-making procedures, and forbid discriminatory taxation of railroads by states and localities. The Administration, in addition, would eliminate the preferential treatment given to Government freight...