Word: prohibition
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...proposed anti-busing amendment, tacked onto a $9 billion appropriations bill for the Departments of State, Justice and Commerce, would prohibit the Justice Department from spending money to send children to any school but the one nearest their home...
...recent Congressional decision to prohibit the Justice Department from granting money for court-ordered busing will have little effect in Cambridge and Boston, school officials said yesterday, but they nevertheless said they are disappointed by the amendment's passage...
Instead, the faculty voted to send the issue back to an executive committee to discuss whether to have a reading period and whether to prohibit major quizzes and exams in the last week before finals...
Proposition 2 1/2 will gradually reduce property taxes to 2 1/2 per cent of market value, and thereafter will prohibit raising the taxes by more than 2 1/2 per cent a year. It will also cut auto excise taxes about 60 per cent...
Among the other propositions, Question 1 passed easily. That amendment will prohibit discrimination against handicapped people...