Word: prohibitively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...state legislatures, the pro-lifers have won fight after fight. The legislatures of 15 states, including Indiana, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, have called for a constitutional amendment that would in effect prohibit abortion in the U.S. In Massachusetts last month, Democratic Governor Edward King signed a tough bill that bans virtually all publicly financed abortions. The Illinois legislature has repeatedly overridden Republican Governor James Thompson's vetoes of bills that would limit state funding for abortions. The courts have thrown out the legislation three times this year as unconstitutional. Complains Attorney Lois Lipton of the American Civil Liberties Union...
...rulings had followed the letter of the 1964 law, but insisted that they were not within its spirit. The primary concern of Congress was with "the plight of the Negro in our economy," Brennan wrote. It would be "ironic indeed," he said, if Title VII was used to prohibit "all voluntary, private, race-conscious efforts to abolish traditional patterns" of discrimination...
Though Federal Communications Commission regulations prohibit obscenity or gross indecency, an FCC spokesman said that broadcasting Carter's broadside was in no way actionable. Radio stations across the country generally played uncensored interviews with the Congressmen who overheard Carter's statement. A few television newscasts, though, avoided mention of the indelicate word. Jim Ruddle, anchorman at Chicago's WMAQ-TV, used the term posterior, and Tom Brokaw of NBC'S Today show mumbled slyly about a "three-letter part of the anatomy that's somewhere near the bottom." CBS's Roger Mudd alluded...
...House. All three measures cover mainly institutional records, not those kept by doctors in their private offices. Also, they would continue to allow release of information for such worthy scientific purposes as inquiries into the effectiveness of a particular drug on the course of a disease. But they would prohibit the kind of blanket, open-ended authorizations that are contained in the any-and-all forms. What is more, the patient, who is now practically the only one kept in the dark about his medical records, would finally be allowed to examine them, either directly or through an intermediary. Penalties...
...Herald-Examiner said Cooke was pressured by National Football League Commissioner Pete Rozelle to sell either his hockey and basketball teams, or the Washington Redskins. He is majority owner of the Redskins, and NFL rules prohibit an owner from having interests in other sports franchises...