Word: prohibitive
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When a dancer does well, she provokes a quiet bombardment of dollar bills-although the Manhattan clubs prohibit the more cosmopolitan practice of slipping the tips into the dancers' costumes. With tips, the girls average between $150 and $200 a week, depending on basic salary. Although they are forbidden to sit with the customers, the dancers are sometimes proffered drinks, and most of them can bolt one down in mid-shimmy...
...Dartmouth's policy is governed by a sort of multi-lateral treaty that does not prohibit coaches from contacting or writing to candidates," Jackson said. "Harvard, either officially or for public consumption, may operate unnecessarily conservatively within the Ivy agreement...
...year old diplomat goes on to say somewhat seriously, "I don't know about lowering the voting age to 18, but at least we should prohibit voting over 60. If a man can't influence a thousand voters at that age, he doesn't deserve a vote for himself...
...pastoral letter ordered to be read in the island's 479 churches this Sunday, the bishops denounced reform-minded Governor Luis Munoz Marin's Popular Democratic Party (no kin to the U.S. Democratic Party). "It is our obligation," they wrote, "to prohibit Catholics from giving their vote [in the island's Nov. 8 election] to a party that accepts as its own the morality of a 'regime of license,' denying Christian morality...
...blackout imposed by John J. Conway, Master of the House. Conway's reason: some 30 of the lightbulbs set in the ceilings behind the windows have exploded over the past few days. Under the circumstances, Conway advised tower inhabitants to find some other sources of illumination. He did not prohibit candles...