Word: prohibitively
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...pension fund, retirement fund or even a personal savings account. Companies would be fair game for class-action lawsuits for both reporting and failing to predict bad news. Corporate officers would be personally assessed for punitive damages, and their firms could not indemnify them. The proposition would also prohibit any attempt to set new limits on attorneys' fees...
...Young Turks of the Republican Revolution, Salmon, in his first term, sponsored bills to pay the legal expenses of the seven travel-office employees fired by the White House in 1993, to give the families of murder victims the option of attending the murderer's execution and to prohibit executive-branch employees from accepting gifts...
Kingston won his last election in a landslide and, in this conservative district, is favored to do it again. In Washington he represents his constituents' desire for lower taxes and less government spending. Last June he sponsored an amendment to prohibit the Environmental Protection Agency from funding any activity it is not directly authorized to perform. And in his district, he holds town meetings almost every weekend to talk with voters and strengthen his consensus...
QUOTE OF NOTE: [On the partial-birth-abortion ban] "Some have argued that it is necessary to outlaw a procedure they consider inhumane. But to prohibit its use even in those rare and unfortunate circumstances when it is necessary is even more inhumane...
...cruel methods of hunting and trapping animals. Question One, the only referendum question on this year's ballot, would change current law in three ways: It would abolish the requirement that five of the seven board seats go to hunters, ban steel jaw and padded leghold traps, and prohibit the use of dogs in hunting bears or bobcats, with some exceptions...