Word: forbiddingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...response to a problem that lies closer to home, several lawmakers have proposed legislation to beef up the 1974 Privacy Act, the federal law that defends citizens from government misuse of data. Enforcement is haphazard, and loopholes permit agencies to stretch the law. Though the act would appear to forbid it, agencies exchange information on individual citizens in the name of detecting waste, fraud and abuse of benefits. They claim that such exchanges are legal on the ground that the disclosures are "compatible" with the purpose for which the data were collected. Under that loose standard, tax returns are compared...
...convention on cross-border adoption, scheduled to be signed in 1993 by more than 50 nations, including the U.S. The draft version would require that every effort be made to place a child locally before he or she is offered to a foreign family. It would also forbid the payment of any compensation to a parent who gives up a child, and calls on signatories to prevent "the abduction, the sale of, or traffic in children...
...when Hill worked for Thomas was that she could not easily bring a suit against her boss for sexual harassment. There were no witnesses, and a court would require witnesses. Had Hill, an ambitious woman with serious career goals, become known as a complainer, or even a "feminist"--God forbid--she undoubtedly would have experienced greater obstacles...
...that the practice of compensating favored customers for losses is uncommon in Japan, nor is it necessarily illegal. Government regulations only forbid companies from promising "in advance" that a customer would be compensated if market losses occur. Then why the outrage? For one thing, the amounts paid to wealthy customers were large, estimated at $465 million for the Big Four firms, which cut into profits that should have gone to stockholders. Then there was the question of fair play in favoring big customers over small ones. Add to that the unsavory (but probably legal) loans to a crime boss...
...Government becomes destructive of these ends," the Declaration states, "it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it . . ." Thus for Jefferson, dissent was not only a right but also a necessity: "I hold that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing . . ." God forbid, he added (meaning what he called "Nature's God"), that we should ever go 20 years without...