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...professionals, like doctors and lawyers, would have to display "appropriate" fluency to obtain licenses to practice. Corporations, traditionally dominated by Quebec's English-speaking elite, would be monitored by a government board to ensure that French became their "language of work." One section of the bill would even forbid the sale of toys or games requiring "use of a non-French vocabulary for their operation" unless a French-language version was available as well...
South African industrial secrecy laws forbid Mobil from releasing any information on its business dealings in the area, and the government reserves the specific right to choose the subsidiaries' clients, Mobil claims...
...back from Florida by now, signalling the time to start the Spring sports schedule. Many used the valuable Florida vacation for training in sun-sitting, drinking beer in warm weather, and enjoying the great American outdoors. If you were unfortunate enought to take your vacation in Philadelphia or (heaven forbid) New York, you missed your training period and you won't be able to enjoy this season to its fullest...
...forbid, Catherine, Anna, Julia or Marie slipped out of the house without saying it Thomas Murray would follow them out onto the sidewalk. Sometimes he would catch up to them when they were already in an automobile, and he would lean through a window. "I believe in one God," he would say, and Catherine, Anna, Julia or Marie would...
...reason is the aggressive campaigning of foes, who believe nuclear plants to be unsafe. Last year voters in Ohio, California, Oregon, Colorado, Washington, Arizona and Montana rejected propositions to curb nuclear power. But the anti-nukes have won some fights too. Last November Missourians voted to forbid utilities to pass on costs of building power facilities until they were in operation, thus hampering construction of nuclear plants. And at Vermont town meetings early this month, residents of 28 communities voted to bar nuclear plants and waste-disposal facilities in their towns. The Wisconsin legislature is now considering several bills that...