Word: prohibitively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there at least be one?" Chaffee replied that U.S. law provided for the Navy to admit "sons" of servicemen killed in action, and he interpreted that narrow slice of law to limit the academy's general enrollment to men only. In addition, Chaffee argued, naval regulations prohibit women from attending Annapolis. Javits' reply: The law "simply provides that the Secretary of the Navy shall be in charge of the Navy-and says nothing about excluding women...
Revel's elusive rhetorical techniques prohibit refutation of his conclusions. Because he claims his arguments are intuitively obvious, his sloppy syllogisms cannot support controversy. He has found a disconcerting way of stating his views at the start of a chapter, and then discussing whatever occurs to him. Suddenly the word "therefore" appears, and Revel blithely announces he has made his point and he claims only foolish French leftists would disagree. I suppose this tone is meant to be audacious and amusing, but I did not laugh...
...highway is now acquiring such symbols as the skidding car, the bicycle and the diagonal slash that means "Don't." In addition, the new signs use a color code: red to prohibit, yellow to warn, green to permit movement, blue for highway services, brown for scenic suggestions. Shapes, too, are being standardized: a pennant for no passing, a circle for railroad crossings, a diamond for potential hazards...
...return said that they thought Harvard should be an open forum and that Kissinger was a sufficiently qualified professor. The students opposed to his return said they thought Kissinger's role in the Nixon Administration, and in particular his support of the invasions of Cambodia and Laos, should prohibit his return...
...prohibit use of sexually discriminatory quotas in graduate and professional school admissions (in any federally-aided institution already more than 10 per cent coeducational). In this case, Harvard would not be exempt from compliance...