Word: prohibition
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...tougher, with more mandatory controls and less use of tax hikes to force conservation. Robert Nathan, a Washington economic consultant and also a member of the TIME Board of Economists, believes cars that get less than 15 miles to a gallon of gasoline should be banned. He would prohibit construction of buildings that waste energy. He also argues that utility companies should be prohibited from burning natural gas to generate electricity. But, he added, "if you can't do it any other way, then...
Finally, the representatives of the residents of Mather, in the form of the House Council, actually voted in favor of this dinner, presumably with the wishes and interests of their constituents in mind. It seems foolish of Epps to prohibit a regular dinner that had been designed to inconvenience Mather residents as little as possible, and which residents' representatives had endorsed...
...type proposed can help women develop a solidarity, and a sense of belonging in a sometimes alien atmosphere. Such a dinner at a River House, where women are in a minority, without actually refusing anyone admittance, would be a valuable project that the University should endorse, rather than prohibit on a technicality. Epps's refusal to let a small-scale, carefully thought out dinner take place one time because of a technicality is an unfortunate example of lack of sympathy for the needs of an often forgotten, but sizeable part of the University...
Some fishermen argue that the Government should prohibit foreign fishing altogether in U.S. waters. But most welcome the new law, even though the quotas also limit their catches. Already, the promise of greater return is spurring some new investment. Next year 21 new steel-hulled vessels will be added to New Bedford's 175-boat fishing fleet...
...proposed regulations, which would prohibit prisoners from calling witnesses in their behalf, are an effort to "fill in the gaps where the old rules were silent," Lee Bromberg, general counsel for the Department of Corrections and co-author of the new regulations, said yesterday...