Word: prohibition
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Several states, including California, New York and Pennsylvania, have taken steps to prohibit Caller I.D. unless phone companies offer customers the ability to block their numbers from being displayed at any time. To pre-empt further moves by the states, the Federal Communications Commission has proposed that callers be allowed to block the display of their numbers on individual calls but not be able to demand that the phone company automatically block their numbers from being displayed at any time. The conflict may have to be resolved in the courts or Congress. The Senate has before it a bill that...
...monopolize wage and hiring decisions), intimidation into joining unions is common. And while the Supreme Court ruled in 1985 that union members must be allowed to quit unions at any time, it is common practice for unions to claim, when they go out on strike, that their "rules" prohibit members from quitting in order to retain their jobs...
...Prohibit blocking of access to abortion clinics, a move aimed at the anti-abortion efforts of groups such as Operation Rescue...
That may sound like impractical idealism. But many of the most competitive institutions in the country--including Princeton, Dartmouth, and Stanford--have honor codes that formally prohibit proctored exams...
...Yeltsin announced that they would hold a rally in central Moscow on March 28. In a meeting at Gorbachev's office, Pugo conjured up the specter of "neo-Bolsheviks storming the Kremlin." The rally was a direct challenge to Gorbachev's personal authority, said Pugo. Gorbachev agreed to prohibit all rallies and to back up the ban with a show of force by bringing troops and tanks into the capital...