Word: prohibition
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...decision of the Civil Aeronautics Board in 1974 to reject an application by Laker Airways to fly regularly-scheduled flights from New York to London for $125 each way. The board enforces regulations that prohibit most new air routes and proposed price cuts...
...upstate New York hamlet of Hardenburgh, residents have dodged the assessor by joining a California mail-order outfit called the "Universal Life Church" and declaring their homes to be churches; they qualify for an exemption on the basis of the U.S. Constitution, which has been interpreted to prohibit the taxation of religious property...
...best-kept secret in the U.S. is that abortion is legal up to and including the ninth month of pregnancy. In 1973 the Supreme Court said that in the first three months states cannot interfere. In the second three months they may regulate, but not prohibit, abortions. In the last three months they may prohibit abortions in the interest of the baby's life. Some states, however, allow abortions through nine months...
...should insure that we do not lose sight of "the continuing dynamics of culture," that we will remember that "codes for the guidance of our moral lives are constantly being proposed for us by the culture even where the social standards which are being invoked seem most precisely to prohibit recourse to moral criteria." What she is saying, through her murky prose, is that in her critical role she seeks primarily to offer some moral guidance, even if her criteria seem totally at odds with everyday reality. Which explains, of course, her willingness to make moral judgments about anything...
...publicized popular vote, it usually is defeated. Legislative easing of sodomy statutes has invariably been camouflaged as part of overall criminal-code reform; when the topic has been discussed on its own, so-called antideviancy laws have been retained or even strengthened. Ironically, those statutes are usually worded to prohibit "deviant" acts (such as fellatio and cunnilingus) by heterosexuals as well, even though various sex surveys show that perhaps 80% of all U.S. adults have indulged in at least one of these practices...