Word: forbids
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...plan. But beyond the talk of economic modernization--a goal that China must undoubtedly pursue--lie obstacles that the best rhetoric and the most carefully laid plans may not overcome as quickly as the Chinese want. It's easy enough to study the Japanese, Yugoslavian and even (God forbid) the Taiwanese models but it is another thing altogether to succeed in implementing such policies. And the barricades that Deng and his men must tear down will not fall easily...
...Ivinskaya. "She and her children are a kind of hostage for me," he wrote. In large part, his refusal of the Nobel Prize and his other concessions had been attempts to save her. Shortly before his death, he managed to send a letter to the West saying: "If, God forbid, they should arrest Olga, all toc sins should ring, just as would have been done in my own case, for an attack on her is in fact a blow at me." Twenty years later the blows are still falling on Olga - and on Pasternak. -By Patricia Blake
...FORBID SEGAL should ever leave New England or invent characters who didn't go to Harvard, Yale, Radcliffe or Vassar. Or characters who didn't grow up to be professors or lawyers or gallery owners or editors. Or characters who couldn't afford to rent a house for a month at the Cape or eat at Harvest ("the new restaurant behind the Brattle Theater...
...Thomas J. Innis, was picked up by Providence police several days after he killed a cab driver with a shotgun, which he subsequently hid. On the way to the station house, one patrolman remarked to his companion about the handicapped children at a school near the arrest site: "God forbid one of them might find a weapon with shells and they might hurt themselves." Innis spoke up and directed the officers to the shotgun. His conviction at trial was overturned by the Rhode Island Supreme Court on the grounds that key evidence, including the gun, was obtained improperly...
...resolutions supported by the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR) included setting up a review committee to forbid Caterpillar Tractor from selling its products to South African military police--a resolution ACSR turned down last year. The Corporation Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (CCSR), which lets ACSR do its research for it, abstained on the resolution because it said the situation in South Africa had not changed enough in the past year to warrant a new policy...