Word: forbids
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...This year 314 constitutional amendments have been introduced in the House. Ninety-eight deal with apportionment, 65 would give equal rights to women, 41 concern religion. Some of the others would establish a uniform voting age of 18, reform or abolish the electoral college, repeal the income tax, forbid federal-budget deficits except in time of national emergency, and double the two-year term of House members. Most of these also have been introduced in the Senate...
...Kremlin seems to agree, despite protests from old-line ideologues and planners. Last week Pravda blasted kopeck-pinching regulations that forbid any restaurant in Russia, from Moscow's vast Ukraina to the smallest cafe in Siberia, to spend more than $5.50 a day on soup greens. Urged Pravda: "Priority must be given to economic methods of management." The government now plans to do just that. Retail stores and restaurants in half a dozen Russian cities will be given a free hand to cut or increase sales staffs, improve displays and boost promotion budgets. "Advertising always pays," intoned Komsomolskaya Pravda...
Lawyers all agree that poor people are entitled to an attorney when they get into trouble. But how to get lawyer and litigant together? Many people do not know of their rights, and the American Bar Association's Canons forbid lawyers to solicit employment...
...vital to the church today. How the commissioners felt about one form of reconciliation was apparent in the approval of a resolution that states that there are no Scriptural barriers to interracial marriage and urges Presbyterians to work for the elimination of the 19 state laws that still forbid it. Yet in drawing up the creed. Dowey explained, the committee was careful to avoid endorsing such things as sit-ins, since "you don't write this year's program into a confession. Civil rights is just the first quarter-inch in miles...
...first time, companies will be required to publish regular and accurate consolidated financial reports, forbid den to accumulate hidden reserves by underrating assets and overrating liabilities - a device long used to mislead stockholders...