Word: forbiding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...while, playing cards, smoking cigarettes and talking, when I discovered the real reason for my new friendships. There was this M.P. on the train, see, and he was prowling around in the parlor car so that they couldn't buy any beer. God forbid these poor suckers should get bombed on their last night of freedom. Well, this situation inspired me to do what I felt was my patriotic duty. Over the next six hours I bought somewhere between 40 and 50 cans of beer (with collected funds, of course). The geek behind the counter loved it. I told...
...task force reached an agreement that secular society should forbid job discrimination against homosexuals and repeal laws that regulate the private sexual behavior of consenting adults. It urges the church to work against "homophobia," the fear and loathing of homosexuals. But agreement only went so far. A conservative minority, consisting of Lovelace and two other theologians, an expert in ethics and a local pastor, filed a 19-page report. It urges the forthcoming General Assembly to interpret the church constitution as banning practicing homosexuals from the clergy and the lay offices of elder and deacon, though accepting homosexuals who remain...
...Massachusetts insurance companies are required to give their employees comprehensive written job descriptions that forbid extra work for no pay, to offer equal benefits programs for all employees, to provide real access to promotion through job postings, and to weigh years of experience equally with college degrees in making hiring decisions. Rules that applied only to women clericals--late slips, bells, bathroom passes--have finally been eliminated...
...argue that both Begin and Sadat are men of action who like to probe and test situations. The U.S. has grown less worried about Begin in office than about a disaster that would force him to resign. Says one top American policymaker: "Losing Begin through sickness or death, God forbid, would be the very worst thing that could happen." According to Western diplomats who have dealt with Begin, he is open-minded on most issues and will sometimes change his position after listening carefully to counterarguments. There are two important exceptions that trigger deep passion: he refuses even to consider...
...guidelines call for the restriction of faculty involvement in CIA recruiting, forbid Harvard employees from performing active intelligence work for the agency, and declare that the CIA should not "employ members of the Harvard community in an unwitting manner...