Word: prohibition
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...main computer may not be a HAL 9000, but it has spent the last three days succesfully resisting all puny human attempts to restart it. The malfunctioning mainframe may prevent space shuttle Discovery from picking up the Australian-born Andrew Thomas this Friday, since NASA flight regs prohibit docking without an operational steering system on the other end. Now shuttle managers are meeting to decide whether to abandon Tuesday's launch altogether...
...short, many think the solution has become as bad as the problem. "In 1964 [when discrimination based on gender first became illegal]," says UCLA harassment-law expert Eugene Volokh, "if you told a member of Congress, 'If you vote to bar discrimination based on sex, you will prohibit employees from putting pictures of their wives in bikinis on their desks,' most legislators would have said, 'Wait a minute, where does it say that...
Taken in its most extreme interpretation, the new policy would prohibit student use of Harvard's insignias on web pages, since such use might imply a University endorsement of a student's online content...
Consenting with the UNESCO guidelines, nearly all countries with looting problems have enacted laws that prohibit looting. However, the laws vary in severity and enforcement, according to Steponaitis...
Cuno argues that to prohibit the display of pieces that do not have full documentation would be a disservice to the public...