Word: prohibitively
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...would prohibit the Justice Department from pursuing any school desegregation case that might result in court-ordered busing. All of Helms' proposals may be overshadowed by more politic New Rightist initiatives, but win or lose, Helms will be point man in the Senate for some of that chamber's most contentious struggles in years...
...Dickens' Pecksniff and Fred Allen's Claghorn, full of futile cracker righteousness. Yet in Aide John Carbaugh's phrase, Helms "planted the flag": his hopeless proposals sometimes forced Senators to take stands on issues they would have just as soon avoided. He introduced numberless bills to stop abortions, to prohibit sex education, to reinstate capital punishment. All lost, by ratios of 10, 20, 50 to 1. He stalled approval of Nixon sub-Cabinet appointees who were not conservative enough for him. He embarrassed Gerald Ford by insisting that the President meet with Alexander Solzhenitsyn.* This year he delayed...
Since that decision, only one in ten of the nation's lawyers has ventured into advertising. Many still fear that they will be stigmatized. Furthermore, in setting guidelines, many states have retained substantial barriers. Ten states bar slogans, twelve prohibit ads on TV, and Mississippi forbids rhetorical questions like...
...they reduced their rate another $40 and sent out letters to 7,500 homeowners. The result: 200 clients and disciplinary proceedings by the local bar association. While New York State's highest court backed the pair and ruled that direct mail was allowed, 38 states still prohibit...
...dingen, a U.S. Army base near Frankfurt in West Germany, helicopter maintenance crews do much of their work under tents instead of in hangars. They use jury-rigged lighting and, in cold weather, kerosene heaters that military regulations prohibit as safety hazards. Across the road, 36 armed M-60 tanks stand ready to go to war-if they can churn their way out of a vast mudhole that turns into a pond whenever it rains. At Fliegerhorst barracks near Hanau, 15 miles south of Büdingen, helicopter repair crews have taken over the base's only gymnasium. They...