Word: outlaw
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...similar circumstances. On the trade front, there is also disappointing news: estimates of the U.S. trade deficit with China range from $20 billion to $35 billion, depending on how Hong Kong transshipments are counted; moreover, Beijing has failed to vigorously enforce agreements with the U.S. that outlaw piracy of videos, CDs and software...
...rented apartment the property of the tenant-his or her lease is contractual based upon the maintenance of the property, not the conditions under which it must be maintained. The rub is precisely in this realm of tenant rights. If the Dean's objective is to totally outlaw fire from students' rooms, then he would have to ban fires in the fireplaces, the smoking of cigarettes and the use of house kitchens, not to mention conveniences like hot pots and microwaves. Such an unpopular move would rightly be considered authoritarian...
...Forbes skirted questions on the controversial subject of abortion by claiming that he wants to "see abortion disappear in America" but refusing to say whether he would support a constitutional amendment to outlaw abortion--a measure that has been part of the Republican platform since...
...YOUR REPORT ON THE GATHERING OF conservatives in Miami over the New Year's weekend [POLITICS, Jan. 8], you included a quote from me, to the effect that I had smoked when I was pregnant, as an example of the "outlaw spirit" that prevailed during the weekend. In fact I declared just the opposite: "Of course, I never smoked when I was pregnant." This is an outrage. You announced to the world that I cavalierly exposed my five children to the harmful effects of tobacco while I carried each in my womb. I am disappointed by such sloppy and unprofessional...
...Fascist Italy; a violent farce, Horse Eats Hat, with 74 actors; Marc Blitzstein's folk opera The Cradle Will Rock, which the WPA shut down and Welles reopened the same night, marching his cast and audience from the original Broadway house to another, empty one for the triumphant outlaw premiere. There were riots outside Welles' shows--to get in. His work was denounced by the Communist Party and the Hearst papers, proving he had done something right. Under his spell, theater was not just dynamic; it was dynamite...