Word: forbiddingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Still there? It's almost November now, and we are in Los Angeles (or Philadelphia or San Francisco or, heaven forbid, Montreal) for the 1981 World Series. The winner of the four-of-seven series will reign as baseball's finest team...
...rules include two important changes that were all but ignored last week in the initial public debate. One would make it far more difficult for workers who are discriminated against to collect back pay for jobs or promotions they did not get. The other provision would flatly forbid any employer with a Government contract to favor one race over another-hiring blacks, say, instead of equally qualified whites-even to atone for the effects of past discrimination. Government officials privately describe the new rules as an attempt to test how far it is politically safe for the Administration to proceed...
...House last week made one striking attempt to stop Watt. By a 358-46 margin (including 142 Republicans), it passed a version of the $11.2 billion Interior Department appropriation bill containing provisions that would forbid some of the Secretary's proposals. Among them is Watt's plan to streamline the Office of Surface Mining, which has already led to intradepartmental mutiny. In May Watt decided to shut down the Denver office of OSM, which supervises strip-mining operations in eight Western states, and ordered 113 of its 133 employees to move, most of them to somewhat less cosmopolitan...
...such proposals is much influenced by the form that such a project might take. One could conceive of the Center as a physical facility serving some sort of cultural and recreational resource, nominally open to all students but effectively used almost exclusively by minorities. I would not want to forbid this type of facility any more than I would wish to deny the right of any group of students with similar interests or backgrounds to gather together informally in pursuit of common interests. On the other hand, I do not advocate investing Harvard's resources in such a project...
Another opponent of the law, Republican Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah, would like to change the act so that the Justice Department could forbid a proposed local law only if it can prove there is an intent to discriminate. As the current law was written, the department had to show only that a change would have a discriminatory effect, whether intended or not. Argues Hatch: "I do not believe a community ought to be labeled a civil rights violator unless there is some wrongful motivation on its part...