Word: prohibition
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Brown hadn't compiled his legislative record with an eye toward higher office. He had introduced a bill to prohibit carrying loaded firearms in pickup trucks, another to allow horse racing and on-track gambling in some counties, another to help day care centers obtain Federal funds, another to liberalize divorce laws. In short, no one was urging him to start house-hunting in Washington...
...ultimate control over funds, the shows seemed doomed. Without federal money-the largest source of public TV financing-such programs would have to seek total support from foundations or other private sources. The corporation's move last week throws even that option into doubt. The corporation could prohibit self-supporting shows from using PBS-maintained facilities...
...spite of Ebert's pro-Mysteclin testimony, the FDA decided to prohibit the sale of the commonly prescribed drug. The FDA had nearly withdrawn the drug in 1969 after a National Academy of Sciences. National Research Council panel declared Mysteclin-F to be ineffective...
...American Airlines' testing includes brain-wave monitoring and screening for "prediabetic" and heart problems. Pan American, Trans-World Airlines and United are similarly strict. The Mayo Clinic includes extensive psychological testing in its preemployment examinations of Northwest Airlines pilots. The pilots' contracts with the companies expressly prohibit any information gained through the airlines' medical tests from being passed...
...December 1969, for example, four students were charged with personally harassing Ernest R. May, then dean of the College. The CRR in February 1970 dismissed the charges, explaining that the Resolution did not explicitly prohibit such harrassment. The watershed March 1970 Faculty meeting then passed a vaguely worded amendment to the Resolution barring "intense personal harassment," and the CRR had its carte blanche. Interpreting the amendment arbitrarily, the Committee has since kicked several students out of school on the charge...