Word: prohibitively
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...punishable by death. By a 5-to-4 vote, the high court ruled in a pair of decisions that the constitutional ban on "cruel and unusual punishments" does not forbid the execution of youths who commit crimes at 16 or 17 years of age, nor does it automatically prohibit death sentences for the retarded. "By executing the retarded and people who aren't old enough to vote or serve in & the Army," said Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz, "we're doing something barbarous: executing the least culpable people on death...
...Convention in Dallas. "America, the red, white and blue, we spit on you," chanted the crowd. Until now, despite the frequency with which the flag had been burned at antiwar rallies in the 1960s and '70s, the Supreme Court had avoided a direct ruling on whether the Government could prohibit such acts...
...Campaigning has always been discouraged, but you can't prohibit it absolutely," says Glimp. "That's just not feasible. We can't tell people they can't campaign. You can't do it even if you think the election could be run better [without...
...council passed the resolution despite protestations that endorsing ROTC violates both council and Harvard policy, both of which prohibit affiliation with organizations that discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation...
...council eventually overturned its decision after a contentious week that electrified the campus. It made its decision on the basis of its charter and University policy, which prohibit campus groups from discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation. But underlying the council's discussion was in part the principle of education free from military influence, and in part the insistence on equality based on a historical legacy left over from a Civil Rights era a quarter century past...