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Word: prohibition (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Current city ordinances prohibit the removal from the housing market of rent-controlled apartments for conversion to other uses without removal permits, granted by the rent control board...

Author: By Andrew C. Karp, | Title: Housing Study Urges Fewer Controls | 11/17/1981 | See Source »

...everything the victorious British did was so wise, and if they had not been so shortsighted in some ways, America might now be a much larger country than it is. Not wanting to offend the Indians-or interfere with the lucrative fur trade-London continued to prohibit settlements west of the Appalachian Mountains. The Appalachian Barrier Act was often ignored, but it nonetheless slowed development of the Far West-that vast area between the Appalachians and the Mississippi River. Only in this century have Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin, for example, had populations large enough to qualify for provincehood; until...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Yorktown: If the British Had Won | 11/2/1981 | See Source »

...short, this has been America's period of full-blooded, go-to-hell, belly-rubbing wahoo-yahoo rampage--and what architecture has she got to show for it? An architecture whose tenets prohibit every manifestation of exuberance, power, empire, grandeur, or even high spirits and playfulness, as the height of bad taste...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Wolfe's Bau-Wow House | 10/27/1981 | See Source »

...team's official practices will continue until December 1, after which Ivy League rules prohibit coach-supervised workouts. Before the actual spring season begins, the netwomen will play in a spring-break tournament in South Carolina, where they will face Duke, William & Mary and other southern teams...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Netwomen Take First at New Englands As Crimson Doubles Dominate Tourney | 10/26/1981 | See Source »

...going on." The Administration further intends to help eliminate any bureaucratic impediments to voluntarism. As Reagan noted in last week's speech, "Mothers and grandmothers have been taking care of children for thousands of years without special college training. Why is it that certain states prohibit anyone without a degree in early childhood education from operating a day-care facility...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Vision of Voluntarism | 10/19/1981 | See Source »

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