Word: prohibition
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...harries' anger stems from the new NCAA traveling regulations that prohibit the home team from fielding more than 11 runners in a meet. The visiting squad can run just nine...
...price a private company has to pay to build a power plant in an urban area nowadays is pretty steep. The local utility has a monopoly on power that's not easy to break. Federal and state environmental laws prohibit construction of all but the cleanest, and therefore the most expensive, projects. And nobody--especially organized residents--wants a noisy power plant as a neighbor. Just to deal with that kind of opposition the company needs big money and a lot of political influence. And Harvard has got just enough of both to drop a $56-million power plant...
Loan Board staffers are drafting a resolution to add to the agreement with Lockheed that will prohibit bribes made to secure foreign business. For its part, Lockheed has suspended all overseas payments, even ordinary sales commissions, until its directors formulate a policy proscribing bribes that will win the Loan Board's approval...
Donald C. McLearn, a spokesman for HEW, said yesterday that although the regulations do not prohibit single-sex scholarships such as the Rhodes, they do require equal financial aid and equal scholarship opportunities for men and women...
Still, the Government faced a dilemma over what to do with criminals, who in any case would probably be few. U.S. immigration laws prohibit their entry. But the U.S., among many other nations, makes a practice of not sending political refugees back to their homelands against their will. When asked what would happen if a murderer turned up among the newcomers, a U.S. immigration official replied: "I don't know. We can't let him in, and we can't send him back. I doubt that any other country would admit him." In fact...