Word: prohibitions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Board of Zoning Appeals voted last night to prohibit a Duncan' Donuts from opening shop in Harvard Square...
...Perot, you have said that as head of Electronic Data Systems, you did not prohibit employees from wearing beards. But in fact, in 1983 a federal judge found that Reggie Dallaire, an orthodox Jewish worker at your company, was fired for no other reason than his refusal to shave his beard. Through 1986, beards, striped shirts and even tasseled loafers were against EDS rules. How do you reconcile these facts with four earlier statements, and what do such strict rules say about your tolerance of people who dress or look or think differently than...
...high court reached across American borders last week and tweaked a neighbor's nose. In a 6-to-3 opinion, Chief Justice William Rehnquist wrote that a "forcible abduction" from a foreign country -- in this case, Mexico -- does not prohibit a defendant's trial in the U.S. "for violation of this country's criminal laws...
...government jobs modeled on the Works Progress Administration that employed more than 8 million American workers during the Depression. In his forthcoming book, The End of Equality, Washington-based journalist Mickey Kaus outlines a stark and simple plan that would replace welfare with a guaranteed- employment program: he would prohibit new people from being added to the welfare rolls, eliminating handouts and offering instead day care and WPA- type jobs on useful public projects -- sweeping streets, building roads and parks, doing clerical work and the like. David Ellwood's scheme, which has strongly influenced Clinton's proposals, would convert welfare...
...judge: "But you do have government orders which prohibit certain things, is that right? This restraining order prevents you from seeing that women. Do you understand...