Word: forbids
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...standards, have never reconciled themselves to those decisions. Their anger has been steadily fanned by a series of lower-court interpretations that have gone so far as to bar voluntary prayer sessions on school property organized by students outside of class hours. Critics fear the courts are attempting to forbid any public acknowledgment of God whatsoever in the schools and thus, in effect, to enthrone indifference or even hostility toward religion as official government policy. They can even cite the example of the protests last week in Poland, a nation that is 90% Roman Catholic, where the people are protesting...
Relations with South Africa could provide one of the sharpest areas of conflict between the House and Senate. The House bill would bar U.S. citizens and companies from making new investments in South Africa because of its apartheid policy and would forbid American banks to lend money to the Pretoria government. In addition, the House voted to require all American businesses in South Africa employing more than 20 people to desegregate their work places, recognize labor unions, and offer equal pay to blacks and whites who do the same work...
...local mismanagement and shoddy or nonexistent maintenance" account for "stairwells that reek of urine and ammonia" and "spray-painted graffiti" in hallways? Is it just possible, heaven forbid, that local management had assistance from the tenants...
...will provide," he said. "Who could have ever imagined that there would be a black pilot from Portsmouth, N.H., being held in a jail in Damascus?" His plans to hold a political rally with Goodman in Portsmouth on Saturday were nixed by the Navy, which said its regulations forbid political appearances by servicemen...
Harvard's links to the clubs are not only morally troubling, they run in direct violation of the College's explicit policy forbidding official support of student groups with discriminatory practices. All sanctioned student organizations must sign a statement that they forbid discrimination--a statement the clubs have not signed...