Word: prohibition
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Nine years after the passage of the ADA, which was designed to prohibit discrimination in the workplace against those with disabilities, the situation has changed for America's disabled--and for their employers. In large ways and small--but mostly small--American businesses have adapted themselves to make the disabled more welcome and productive. Such workplace accommodations often cost little and can be as simple as offering flexible work hours to an employee suffering from chronic depression, or buying a computer keyboard with all the control keys on one side for someone missing a hand. In general, most workplace accommodations...
...fears, however, persist. Genetic testing is moving inexorably toward becoming standard practice, and it's doubtful that legislation alone can protect against its misuse. The law may prohibit insurers from ordering genetic tests, for example, but in some states nothing prevents them from using tests that are already part of your medical record. "Apply for insurance today, get tested tomorrow," advises a health-insurance executive, only half in jest...
Organizers said postering regulations for the Yard enacted last fall also caused difficulties in getting the word out to Harvard students. The new rules restrict posters in the Yard to the kiosks and sandwich boards, and prohibit signs on trees, posts or the ground...
...Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, one of Washington's most liberal legislative coalitions. It was 11 years more before the group took a consensus position on anything involving gay rights. In 1994 it backed a modest change in the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, or ENDA, that would prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation while permitting an exemption for churches. Two years later that amendment was defeated in the Senate by just a single vote...
Mutual-fund regulations prohibit the kind of leverage that drove Long Term Capital into receivership. The Securities and Exchange Commission also makes mutual funds disclose details of their investments. There are few such restrictions on hedge funds--or protections for their investors--except that the funds may not accept investors with less than $1 million in liquid assets...