Word: forbids
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Burnham's assigned guide, a first-year football team member, took him to the D.U. to "show him a good time." Here was the club members' first trespass: Burnham was not an authorized guest of the club, and the club rules also forbid the admittance of first-year students...
...Pombo bill would explicitly forbid any "federal funds...by contract or by grant...to any institution of higher education...that prohibits, or in effect prevents, the Secretary of Defense from maintaining or establishing a unit of the Senior Reserve Officer Training Corps at that institution...
...carrier: a nationwide supersophisticated fiber-optic system being encouraged by the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications. In Hong Kong 600 of the city's skyscrapers are already wired with fiber optics and rate as ``intelligent buildings.'' The colony's 6 million residents are so interconnected that the better restaurants forbid patrons to talk on their cellular telephones while eating...
...first crude painting of a naked person was drawn on the wall of a cave. Does cybersex conform to community standards? The idea of community standards starts to evaporate when the ``community,'' like the Internet itself, is global. The large commercial online ``communities'' like CompuServe and America Online expressly forbid the posting of any explicit sexual material. Since, by popular demand, they are providing increased access to the Internet, however, they do allow you (after many disclaimers) to add the alt.sex groups to your personal inventory of Usenet newsgroups. Besides, the ``private'' chat rooms on both these services are notorious...
Into that climate comes the West Coast ballot measure, called the California Civil Rights Initiative. The brainchild of two academics, Thomas Wood and Glynn Custred, it would forbid the state to use race or gender preferences in employment policies, admissions or awarding contracts. Affirmative action has deteriorated into ``ethnic bean counting,'' says Wood...