Word: prohibitions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Such a law, if passed in its original form, would prohibit the state from doing business with American companies that have investments in South Africa. The law, which would be the first of its kind in the country, also terminates existing state contracts with such firms...
...radio stations at the University of Massachusetts will have to end their operation because of law that prohibit stations with signals as weak as theirs, the Associated Press reported this week...
...while the decision gave prosecutors a big lift, it left the law that governs insider-trading cases as murky as ever. By a vote of 8 to 0, the Supreme Court ruled that Winans had violated general laws that prohibit wire and mail fraud. On the separate issue of whether Winans had been correctly convicted of breaking federal securities laws, the court split down the middle, 4 to 4, a decision of no value as a legal precedent. Thus the court has still not settled the question of when insider trading is a violation of the securities statutes...
...proposal, which will be considered by the Council in December, would prohibit anymore fast-food restaurants from moving into Central Square. It defines a fast-food restaurant as one that uses disposable dinnerware, does not have individual printed menus, and seats fewer than 75 percent of its customers at tables...
...bill, which would protect gays in the areas of employment, housing and public accomodations, is modeled after state laws that prohibit discrimination on the basis of race, color, religious creed, sex, age and national origin or ancestry...