Word: forbids
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stadium was virtually empty last week as the skaters went through the exacting ritual, tracing and retracing each figure while judges got down on their hands and knees to search for the slightest bulge in a circle or the telltale double line that proved a competitor had used (heaven forbid!) the flat of her skate. "It takes very hard work to get the school figures perfect," sighed Peggy; her practice schedule for almost a year had consisted of five-hour workouts six days a week. It all seemed worthwhile when the judges added up their scores...
...Call You. Though traditions in some countries forbid brokers to advertise or openly solicit customers, the U.S. firms have built a big clientele and aggressively hold onto it. A German broker seldom phones his customers-and charges them 20 pfennigs for each call when he does-but the U.S. brokers are always on the phone with suggestions and send out as many as eight research reports a month. Many governments restrict trading in U.S. stocks; Britain imposes a 4¼% tax on it, and countries as diverse as Chile and Denmark flatly prohibit it. Imaginative investors, however, usually can slide...
...bill now pending would forbid dispensal without prescription as well as the sale of contraceptives from vending machines. In addition, it would legalize the giving of birth-control information by certain public agencies...
Facing Reality. Many states still barely tolerate the idea of any public employees' joining unions-and nearly all forbid police to do so. Even so, apart from the privilege of striking, most public employees now have almost the same rights as private employees in at least eight states-California, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Oregon, Rhode Island, Wisconsin. Such states have begun to use many techniques to promote bargaining-for example, fact-finding reports that rouse public pressure for settlement, binding arbitration on grievances arising from signed contracts, and advisory arbitration to settle new contract terms...
...considered a straight bribe, and in Sweden it is considered bad form to give liquor-the most popular gift in the rest of Europe. The Germans prefer gifts that can be used over and over, do not like conspicuous firm names or advertising messages. Very few firms in Europe forbid their employees to accept gifts...