Word: prohibitively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wind toppled her against a guard rail. She recently filed a $250,000 suit against the architects and manager of the building. Her argument: the structure's design increased wind velocities in the area; moreover, the management was negligent in failing, in a period of hazardous winds, to prohibit her from crossing the plaza...
When the House turned to the $7.3 billion foreign aid bill, it was unexpectedly sympathetic to some of the Administration's arguments. Defeated, for example, was an attempt to attach strings on aid to international organizations, like the World Bank, to prohibit them from using U.S. contributions to assist Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and Uganda. State Department lobbyists successfully argued that these agencies could not accept money with such conditions. Voting the restrictions, therefore, could force the U.S. to quit the organizations. Heartened by its victory on this issue, the Administration is more optimistic about the prospects for the rest...
Saccharin users were also heartened when Morris Cranmer, director of the FDA's National Center for Toxicological Research, criticized the Delaney clause, the law that requires the FDA to prohibit the use of any food additive shown to induce cancer in laboratory animals. In a 700-page report to FDA Head Donald Kennedy, Cranmer argued that the law failed to take into account that the potential risk of cancer from saccharin might be outweighed by possible benefits to diabetics or the obese...
...other foreign policy matters, Tsongas is leading the current fight against lifting the embargo on Rhodesian chrome, and has also opposed the ending of the arms embargo against Turkey. Earlier this year, he authored legislation to prohibit the U.S. Export-Import Bank from providing loans to South Africa...
...committee suggested that "further study of the potential impact of the various Federal subsidiary plans" be undertaken and that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) "explicitly prohibit blanket refusals" by networks to sell political advertising time. The FCC was also called upon to monitor independent candidates' spending and to "work with the Federal Election Commission...