Word: prohibitively
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...unfriendly Administrations have enabled employers to stall off union- representation elections for years and even break strikes. Secretary of Labor Robert Reich now proposes to change all that. Meeting with the AFL-CIO executive council in Bal Harbour, Florida, Reich repledged Bill Clinton's support for a law to prohibit employers from hiring permanent replacements for striking workers (the certainty of a George Bush veto long kept the Democratic majorities in Congress from even trying to pass such a law). Further, said Reich, Clinton will appoint a special commission to recommend other ways to equalize the power of unions...
EVEN BEFORE IT BECAME PART OF STATE LAW, COLOrado's Amendment 2 was stirring up a national boycott. But now it is no longer clear when, or even if, Amendment 2 will ever become law. Approved by voters in November, the amendment -- which would prohibit the state or its localities from passing laws that specifically guarantee homosexuals protection against discrimination -- was scheduled to take effect last Friday. But that afternoon, Colorado Judge Jeffrey Bayless granted an injunction pending the outcome of a lawsuit that argues the amendment is unconstitutional...
Although the EPA's conclusions lack any regulatory punch, several American companies are now considering a total ban on cigarette smoking in the workplace. The Baltimore Orioles announced last week that they would limit smoking to certain designated areas of their open-air stadium and prohibit it in the seats...
...Michigan to consult with him and killed herself on Nov. 23, the bill that had stalled swiftly sailed through the legislature in less than 10 days, on overwhelming votes in both the upper and lower chambers. "It's just the outright assisting in a killing that this bill will prohibit," says representative Joseph Palamara, a Democratic state legislator from Wyandotte. "It doesn't affect whatsoever doctors who withhold or withdraw food...
...council order asks the city manager to compile a list of cities with laws that prohibit extending protections to gay men and lesbians