Word: prohibitive
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...tell more about a culture than the big issues that engross most journalists. Reverence for the flag, for instance. Outside of the emerging na tions of Africa, he recently wrote, scarcely any other country shows such a high regard for that symbol. U.S. laws, he was surprised to find, prohibit use of the flag for ornamentation. So when he once looked for a box of candy with a flag on it to send to his mother in Britain, storekeepers regarded him as "some kind of pervert...
...fact is that there are hardly any amateurs left, at least by Olympic standards-which rule out even athletic scholarships (a ban that is obviously ignored) and prohibit any financial remuneration whatsoever from athletic ability. The trouble with that philosophy is that it ignores the labor and expense necessary to produce a Jean-Claude Killy, who has been training full time since...
...quite what it says. "As far as the Davis Cup team is concerned," says U.S.L.T.A. President Robert J. Kelleher, "the color of their clothes will be up to their captain." Moreover, many U.S. tennis clubs back up the longstanding tradition that "whites are right" with written bylaws that specifically prohibit color from their courts...
...have expanded little since. Financial considerations have limited their growth, but if a professor is sufficiently convinced that a student has the interest to profit from an independent study with him, and if he is willing to spare the time, there is no reason to prohibit it. Departments, however, maintain varying standards in accordance with their self-image, and even honor students are often denied the independent study by a department. Many students probably would not want the freedom, but for those who do, the departments should grant...
After ignoring the pile of matrimonial wreckage for more than a decade, the Communists are now awakening to its dark demographic consequences. Most Eastern European governments have passed laws making it harder to get a divorce, and most now prohibit abortion except in unusual circumstances. In Rumania, where Party Boss Nicolae Ceausescu has declared war on "levity toward the family," both doctor and patient in an abortion case get stiff prison terms. The government makes it so hard to buy contraceptives that birth control pills have become an appreciated currency for tipping-even for those who get hold of only...