Word: prohibitional
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...Three mornings a week, students had to sign in with prefects outside hall chapels, a way of encouraging attendance. This year Hesburgh dropped both restrictions (chapel attendance has not slipped). Hesburgh also cut eleven pages of student rules to two quick pages that, among other restrictions, prohibit students from having cars, from cheating or from "overdrinking." If it took Hesburgh nine years to make those changes, his hesitation is understandable. On the record, the old tight rein produced remarkably stable men. Not long ago, a visiting Harvard psychiatrist was astounded to find not a single undergraduate suicide in Notre Dame...
...Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield of Montana introduced a bill that would prohibit the "arbitrary" use of the literacy tests required for voting privileges. Under the bill, Puerto Ricans would no longer be required to know English in order to vote-provided they had at least a sixth-grade education in Spanish-and Southern states would not be able to prevent Negroes from voting by asking them to "interpret" the Constitution. Administration strategists gave the bill a "reasonably good" chance of passage...
Last week, however, the small recovery melted like a snowball on Copacabana beach. The tax-reform bill bogged down. But another bill, full of demagogic appeal, raced through the House. It would forbid foreign firms to sell stocks and bonds in Brazil. It would prohibit foreigners from taking over enterprises "being exploited" by Brazilian capital...
Originally, the University, which owns most of the streets between Mt. Auburn St. and Memorial Drive near the Houses, had hoped to enclose the area with fences and gates to prohibit regular automobile traffic. The second Yard, with landscaping and a small amount of business traffic, would resemble the present Yard...
...have no use for the high-pressure social life or the expense of fraternity affiliation. Such students remain independent and are thus forced to live in dormitori where social contacts are impeded, where the physical plant is inadequate for intellectual and social needs, and where artificial social barriers prohibit an atmosphere conducive to scholar endeavor...