Word: forbiddingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Baghdad. But now it's okay to go storming into northern Iraq. How convenient! Most of the liberals did not want to go to war in the first place. Now they want to rescue the world from the consequences of George Bush's--not Saddam's, God forbid--aggression. How noble...
...measures forbid members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences from conducting research for outside parties unless the materials and results of that research will be made available to the academic community for verification...
...Sverdlovsk. That remarkable skill constitutes a breakthrough in an unwritten, decades-old rule of Soviet politics that inhibits leaders from relating emotionally with their audiences. If a speaker connects, after all, the implication is that the views of the audience count, that persuasion is involved, that the audience, heaven forbid, actually has something to communicate back to the stage. Yeltsin has tapped the desperate yearning of Russians to be taken seriously by their leaders, to be spoken to rather than lectured at. He is thus not simply the most popular contemporary Russian political figure by far, but also the first...
Aside from the Islamic world, where laws based on fundamentalist strictures often forbid access to any entertainment, there seem to be very few places where that is not the case. Even in secular Iraq, teenagers jam the half a dozen or so little shops in downtown Baghdad that sell pirated copies of American rock-'n'-roll tapes and where the walls are covered with posters of Madonna and Metallica...
...place at medical school is valuable because of a variety of social and governmental policies that reduce opportunities to deliver health care and increase the incomes of doctors. Restrictive licensing laws forbid nurses and paramedics to perform simple tasks (or, in reality, allow doctors to collect a middleman's fee). Medical-school places are limited. Medicare and Medicaid expand the market for doctors' services, while doing little to promote competition on price...