Word: prohibitively
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...international editors and correspondents were summoned to Pretoria to hear the presidential proclamation invoking the sweeping new regulations. There, while a warm summer sun bathed the administrative capital, they were handed a 24-page document whose terms were to go into effect on Dec. 11. The new regulations prohibit journalists from being "on the scene, or at a place within sight of any unrest, restricted gathering or security action" without permission of security officials. They forbid the reporting of "subversive" comments by those advocating a wide range of antigovernment actions. They ban the photographing of dead people, property damage...
...based on claims of discrimination -- in employment, health care, insurance, housing, child custody and schooling. And where the law appears to be heading in these disputes is increasingly clear. Courts and agencies in at least 20 states have decided that AIDS victims are protected by existing state laws that prohibit discrimination against the handicapped...
...free to compete around the world with the British bank. Said he: "We are a very powerful bank, and we can continue extending our business abroad." Experts consider the bank's $116 million price tag a bargain for the South Africans. Moreover, because of tight currency rules that prohibit export of capital except at unfavorable exchange rates, the British Barclays will keep the proceeds from the sale on deposit in South Africa for at least a year...
...parliament, socialist legislators voted against an anti-racism law that they themselves had proposed earlier. The final version of the law was very different from the original draft. The religious parties forced through a more lenient version because the old text conflicted with parts of the Jewish Law that prohibit marriages between Jews and non-Jews...
...Washington, as in nature, every action tends to elicit an opposite reaction; but unlike nature, political reactions may not be equal. Already there are reports that legislation is being readied to rein in the NSC advisor and his staff. One idea is to prohibit their carrying out covert operations; another would be to require that the NSC advisor and possibly his top aides be made subject to Senate confirmation and make themselves available for congressional hearings, requirements from which they have been exempt as members of the White House staff...