Word: inhibitive
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...interpreting the First Amendment ("Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof..."). Writing for the 5-4 majority, Chief Justice Warren Burger seemed to argue that the traditional guidelines-that a law must serve a secular purpose, neither advance nor inhibit religion, and not entangle the state in purely religious questions-were merely "useful," rather than mandatory. "A more flexible standard may be emerging," says U.S. Solicitor General Rex E. Lee. The real test, set forth by the Chief Justice, now seems to be simply whether a religious practice presents "a real...
...keep aircraft out of the negotiations. They feared that limits intended to apply to aircraft in Europe might inhibit the U.S.'s freedom to station similar warplanes elsewhere in the world, even within the U.S. In the face of Perle's threat, the chiefs switched sides and reluctantly supported him on the zero option. Weinberger lobbied the President directly, suggesting that such a bold proposal might make Reagan a candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize...
Forced into the ground, the water will help push oil to the surface, its low oxygen content ensuring that microorganisms do not grow to inhibit the oil flow. Currently, the wells produce 1.5 million bbl. daily. The STP-processed water will guarantee that an additional 1 billion bbl. can be extracted from the sandstone beneath the Beaufort Sea before production slacks off in the 1990s...
...patient died." For the first time since World War II, noted Fekete, the whole world-the Western industrialized countries, the Eastern bloc, the OPEC countries and the Third World-has been simultaneously caught in a slump. Fekete believes that budget deficits will cripple the American economic upswing and inhibit recovery in the rest of the world...
Civilization rests on two things...the discovery that fermentation produces alcohol, and voluntary ability to inhibit defecation. And I put it to you, where would this splendidly civilized occasion be without both? Sophie Volpp