Word: forbiddingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...liberalized laws. The Population Council in New York City this week published a study called Induced Abortion: A World Review, 1981, by Dr. Christopher Tietze, the pre-eminent expert on international abortion. Among its findings: 9% of the world's 4.4 billion people live in countries that totally forbid abortion (among them: Spain, the Dominican Republic and Indonesia); 38% live in nations where abortion on request is allowed, at least in the first trimester of pregnancy; the rest live under laws that allow abortions under conditions that range from saving the mother's life to economic hardship...
...chance, you expect to get some sleep or--God forbid--do some homework, you've got another thing coming. You'll quickly learn that studying and sleeping are impossible when a dozen nocturnal proctees are playing ultimate frisbee in the halls till sunrise...
...wrong, Referring to a possible Third World center financed by the University, he says, "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." But he continues, "on the other hand, I don not advocate investing Harvard's resources in such a project." The unfortunate reality is that Third World students here can not count on a pool of affluent alumni from which to solicit funds the same...
...Alamos Laboratory in New Mexico suggested the only humane solution to the uranium problem in a 1978 report: ...perhaps the solution to the radon emission problem is to zone the land into uranium mining and milling districts so as to forbid human habitation...
...ordinance under consideration, similar to guidelines already adopted by Cambridge, would require all institutions using recombinant DNA technology to meet National Institutes of Health guidelines and would also forbid more dangerous experimentation requiring stricter P-3 and P-4 levels of containment...