Word: prohibition
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...owner Ted Turner was reported to be once again eyeing CBS, after its failed merger with QVC. But government regulations would probably block Turner from purchasing the "Tiffany network," according to TIME's New York correspondent Massimo Calabresi. Federal laws prohibit one company from controlling both television stations and cable systems in the same market. Turner's cable connections? Time Warner Inc. and Tele-Communications, Inc. -- both of which own stock in his company...
...referendum goes through, a vote against rent control would prohibit the practice in the state except when voluntarily adopted...
...noted that the landscapers, employees at Cambridge Landscape Company, do obey legal guidelines, which prohibit noise in residential areas between...
...Labor Department are on the offensive. Testifying before Congress, FDA commissioner David Kessler said his agency was considering regulating tobacco as a drug. Labor Secretary Robert Reich moved to prohibit smoking in all workplaces, including factories, office buildings, restaurants and schools. Meanwhile Philip Morris, the nation's largest cigarette manufacturer, laid a whopping $10 billion libel suit on ABC television for reporting that cigarette makers deliberately manipulate nicotine levels in cigarettes in order to keep smokers hooked...
Iran has attempted to prohibit the ritual because of its pre-Islamic, "pagan" origins, Chehabi said...