Word: prohibitively
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Antismoking champions cheered the ruling. Oklahoma Congressman Mike Synar last month introduced legislation that would strictly prohibit any tobacco ads. Such a ban could seriously hurt the financial health of many newspapers and magazines that rely heavily on their share of the nearly $3 billion a year spent by the tobacco industry on advertising and promotion. The ruling could spur a similar push to bar liquor ads. With the constitutional obstacles now largely out of the way, the tugging and pulling of lobbyists and lawmakers will decide whose commercial message is interrupted...
...ruled that an employer who genuinely fears a spread of contagion can fire an AIDS victim without violating his federal civil rights. Snapped a staff attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union: "The decision is nothing more than a pretext for discrimination." And in California, an initiative that could prohibit AIDS victims from attending or teaching school and working in restaurants was certified for placement on the November ballot. The measure was put forward by followers of the perennial presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche...
Justice William J. Brennan, in the court's majority opinion, said: "We hold that [federal law] does not prohibit a court from ordering, in appropriate circumstances, affirmative race-conscious relief as a remedy for past discrimination...
When the shanties were constructed, SASCmembers delineated "Principles of the Community,"which prohibit alcohol and drugs and call onprotesters to respect others' property within theshanties...
...student opinion on such issues as Harvard divestment from companies that do business in South Africa--and campus polls have been far from conclusive--it is not an issue in the question of section meetings at the shantytown. The Faculty of Arts and Sciences should take immediate steps to prohibit this practice in the future...