Word: prohibition
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...decision of the term, the court struck down a San Diego ordinance banning billboards as an unconstitutional infringement of free speech because the law was too broad. In the process, however, seven Justices with differing views on the ordinance agreed that states and cities do have the right to prohibit strictly commercial billboards. A bewildered Justice William Rehnquist described his colleagues' disparate opinions as "a virtual Tower of Babel, from which no definitive principles can be clearly drawn...
...Statutes prohibit the Navy and Air Force from putting females into combat, while service regulations preclude the Army and Marine Corps from using them in that capacity...
...University's foes, may soon combine to subordinate Harvard to City Hall. And that, in turn, may change the University's aloofness to neighborliness, a little forced, perhaps, but there nonetheless. The city council is expected to vote, before its summer recess, in favor of a bill that will prohibit the growth of Harvard and other non-profit institutions into residential neighborhoods without special--and very hard to obtain--permission. Under the new law, the Cambridge Community Development department says, "institutional growth would not be completely prohibited...but would be substantially limited...
...widely violated, so they pressed the WHO, an agency of the United Nations, to draw up the code adopted last week. Though they are not binding on any nation, the new guidelines apply to infant-formula promotion in industrialized countries as well. Strictly following the code, all nations would prohibit company incentives for doctors to promote formula, free samples for mothers, and consumer advertising generally...
Getting in the way of traffic is a more pressing worry. Police are braced for what could be an audio-accident season this summer, with stereo-deaf sportsmen crossing the paths of oncoming cars. As for those behind the wheel, many states prohibit driving with both ears blocked, but few enforce such laws. "Motorists al ready listen to car radios that are so loud they can't hear our sirens," says Michigan State Policeman Wayne McKalpain. "If they put on headphones, they'll hamper our ability to respond to emergencies...