Word: prohibitively
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Toshiba Corp. President Sugiichiro Watari and Chairman Shoichi Saba suddenly dashed to their corporate headquarters for an emergency board meeting. Then, at a hastily called news conference, the two executives resigned. That surprise gesture of contrition came less than a day after the Senate voted 92 to 5 to prohibit Toshiba and Kongsberg Vapenfabrikk, Norway's largest defense contractor, from selling any products in the U.S. for two to five years...
Equally controversial is a bill that would prohibit the widespread construction-industry practice known as "double-breasting," in which companies operate two subsidiaries, one unionized and the other nonunion. Critics charge that this practice is merely a way for firms to circumvent collective-bargaining agreements. If the proposed bill passes, these companies would have to choose to be either exclusively union or nonunion. Labor leaders believe the law would produce more unionized shops, but some companies indicate they might try to shut out their unions. Such is the case at Phelps Inc., a 2,000-employee construction firm based...
...impact of last week's pronouncement should soon be felt on numerous projects facing opposition. In Charlotte, N.C., for example, officials are & pushing a proposal to restore neighborhoods to their 19th century appearance. In California authorities have enacted "open space plans," which prohibit development in certain areas. On Staten Island, N.Y., residents are intensifying their fight to be paid for conversion of their land into a 1,300- acre preserve of freshwater wetlands...
...forbid Administration solicitation from other countries or private individuals of funds to buy arms for the contras? By specifying that "no funds available" could be used, the Boland amendment seemed to prohibit such a ruse. Assistant Secretary of State Langhorne Motley told Congress in 1985 that the Administration interpreted the law to prohibit "soliciting and/or encouraging other countries to contribute funds." He said, "We have refrained from doing that." In fact it was being done -- without his knowledge, says Motley...
...week's end the President revised his argument, contending that even if he had solicited funds from Saudi Arabia, the law did not prohibit him from doing so. "There is nothing in the Boland amendment that could keep me from asking other people to help ((the contras))," Reagan told a group of newsmagazine reporters. "The only restriction on me was that I could not approve the sending of help myself out of our budget money...