Word: forbids
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...little lazy about keeping their plants in working order - but "what the traffic will bear" is part of the free-market package. Environmental- and NIMBY-minded voters kept new power plants from being built, and their allergy to the possibility of rate increases under deregulation forced Davis to forbid the utilities, in time of juice shortage, increased demand and high operating costs, from passing any of those increases on to consumers. So the utilities went broke, and now Californians are finally picking...
...forbid you ever have to pull that trigger," Favreau says...
...drain much of the freedom and spontaneity out of travel. Planning a big summer trip with the kids? Better make your reservations now. Want to take a flight that doesn't set you back a month's salary? Better buy your ticket weeks ahead of time. And God forbid you should want to change your plans later. That'll be $75, please--if you're lucky...
...world's oil economy, but rogue member Iraq and the U.S. economic slowdown could foil the oil cartel's best efforts. The cartel - which meets out in the open to fix prices, despite the fact that half its members are also members of the World Trade Organization, whose rules forbid such practices - is due to convene in Vienna next week, and is expected to agree to reduce the world's oil supply by 1.5 million barrels...
Harvard put a little distance between itself and the rest of the ECAC with the sweep. Ivy League rules forbid a team from playing during exam period so it has played more games than the rest of the conference. The Engineers have three games in hand over Harvard, but the Crimson now has a six-point lead. It now is ahead of second-place Vermont by four points in the ECAC, but the Catamounts do have four games in hand...