Word: forbids
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...voluntarily refrain from posting outsize increases, out of fear that the board would arouse the wrath of the public against them. Okun hopes that in practice most would seek the board's guidance informally before negotiating wage increases or raising prices. As a last resort, the board could forbid by law or rescind any increases that it found excessive. It could seek injunctions and fines against flagrant violators of its rulings; Robert Nathan would go further and provide jail sentences...
...antitrust policy for more than five decades, apply to conglomerates? The act clearly bans major acquisitions that "substantially lessen competition." It has been applied to horizontal mergers of directly competing firms and to vertical mergers of companies that have customer-supplier relationships. But it does not specifically forbid the kind of mergers that form conglomerates: those involving firms offering apparently unrelated goods or services. The Justice Department's three suits against ITT were intended to clear up the issue by bringing it before the U.S. Supreme Court. But to avoid lengthy litigation that would delay divestiture for years, department...
...doctors warning them that synthetic estrogenic hormones should not be prescribed during pregnancy. He added that young women with irregular vaginal bleeding (usually attributed to ovulation failure) should be carefully checked for precancerous signs. Ingraham has also suggested to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration that it forbid outright the prescribing of stilbestrol during pregnancy. This type of compound is still considered valuable for men with prostate cancer and for some cases of breast cancer...
...press is indeed essential to the nature of a free state; but this consists in laying no previous restraints upon publication, and not in freedom from censure for criminal matters when published. Every free man has an undoubted right to lay what sentiments he pleases before the public; to forbid this is to destroy the freedom of the press...
...system of farm price supports, which assumes set relationships between the currencies of the Market's six member nations. Bundesbank President Karl Klasen contended that Germany should instead clamp on tight exchange controls in order to stop the inflow of unwanted dollars. The government could, for example, forbid citizens to borrow abroad and order commercial banks not to pay interest on dollar deposits...