Word: prohibition
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Document. The Moscow agreement itself is simple-some feel too simple. In 800 refreshingly brief words, the U.S., Britain and the Soviet Union agree to "prohibit, to prevent and not to carry out any nuclear weapons test explosion or any other nuclear explosion" in the atmosphere, outer space or under water, the treaty to be of "indefinite duration." This wording raised the question of whether prohibition of "any other nuclear explosion" might be interpreted as a prohibition of the use of nuclear weapons even in wartime; clearing up any doubts, the President in his speech took pains to preclude that...
...allows those who do not wish to join to pay a service fee equal to union dues. The fee ostensibly covers these workers' share of the collective bargaining cost. Four years ago, when an Indiana court ruled that the state's right-to-work law did not prohibit agency-shop contracts, labor leaders saw the chance to set up such shops in other right-to-work states. Twelve of the state right-to-work laws specifically ban agency shops as well as union shops, but labor hoped to use the agency in the remaining seven states despite...
Tactics of the Boss Tweed era are out of style in Washington, but patronage still figures in the granting of too many jobs. Several bills, now pending in Congress would set state quotas for summer jobs and prohibit discriminatory hiring practices. These measures, along with continued surveillance by the Civil Service Commission, would help to create in fact the strict employment merit system that passed into law eighty years...
During last year's gubernatorial campaign in California, for example, Richard Nixon frequently pledged that, if elected, he would prohibit the appearance of any "subversive speaker" on state campuses. Kerr's acid reaction was to comment that "we will certainly consider Mr. Nixon's requests...but we will do exactly as we please...
...practice given administrators in Ceylon nightmares. The report drew from the habit of some Latin American governments (of subsidizing inefficient state-owned concerns for purposes of patronage) the general moral that the U.S. should not support state industries which compete with private ones. If followed, this principle will prohibit A.I.D.'s granting India's request for $600 million to cover the external costs of a new government steel mill, a project that Ambassador Galbraith has strongly supported...