Word: prohibitively
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...require payments in excess of the original contract. The proposed law would limit to $100,000 the amount the state could pay on a consultant contract with an individual and would require all other consultant contracts in excess of $25,000 to be sought through competitive bidding. It would prohibit consultants from supervising state employees, and it would limit the use of consultants as substitutes for state employee positions...
...graduate presidents of Harvard's nine final clubs yesterday voted to prohibit alcohol from the remainder of this fall's "punching" process and earlier this week moved to ban kegs from the clubs altogether, several undergraduate club presidents said last night...
Late last year the Justice Department reviewed how the Executive Order might apply to U.S.-supported coups. Its conclusions are secret. But former CIA counsel Bruemmer has publicly voiced an opinion that the order "does not prohibit U.S. officials from encouraging and supporting a coup, even where there is a likelihood of violence and a high probability that there will be casualties among opponents of the coup." So long as the U.S. does not approve specific plans for the killing of individuals, he says, the "prohibition against assassination has not been violated...
...this year, severe budgetary problems at the MDC may prohibit the commission from providing the forces it has in the past...
...greatest resentment, however, comes from the West German takeover of a captive market. Western merchandisers have written exclusive supply contracts with East German managers that prohibit them from selling things made in the G.D.R. "It's a real scandal," says Hartzel. "The Western chains are trying to control the market and drive up the prices. So the food prices here, where the average salary is $600 a month, are higher than in West Berlin, where the average is $1,379. That just isn't right...