Word: forbiddingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...instituting the Zoe Baird standard, Clinton has tilted the pool of potential appointees away from working parents toward the single, the childless, those with grown kids and even, God forbid, the millionaire types with stay-at-home wives who have dominated government for eons. (Sure, some of these folks could be vulnerable because they've employed maids and gardeners without paying taxes. But, provided such workers are not illegal aliens, an employer can argue that they are "independent contractors" responsible for their own paperwork.) The Cabinet is already shaping up to reflect this bias, at least where women are concerned...
...take things too seriously. After one date, Harvard students are supposed to know whether or not they want relationships. God forbid a second date with someone we're still not sure we want to take home...
...once been an illegal alien. On Friday, Wood released a statement that offered her side of the story. It said that employment of an illegal alien was within the law as it stood at the time and that even when the law was changed eight months later to forbid such hirings, it excluded employees hired prior to its passage. Through a subsequent government amnesty program, the baby-sitter obtained legal residency in December 1987. She is still employed in the Manhattan apartment Wood shares with husband Michael Kramer, who is a political columnist for TIME...
...deportations are in direct violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention regarding the treatment of occupied territories and their populations. The laws of the Convention forbid the expulsion of citizens of occupied lands. If Israel wishes to present even the semblance of abiding by international law, it ought to allow the deportees to return immediately and prosecute them fairly. In addition, all of the deportees and their families should receive compensation and an official apology. Only those found guilty of crimes should be punished...
...Clinton has unveiled his toughened -- but not too toughened -- ethics rules. They forbid top appointees to lobby their own agencies for five years after leaving government, extending the present one-year ban. Clinton's White House staff members would be barred for the same period from lobbying any agency for which they had "substantial personal responsibility." All appointees must promise never to lobby on behalf of foreign political parties or governments -- now a common practice that Ross Perot once called "economic treason...