Word: prohibitively
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...addition to the calendar changes, the Commission added a clause this year to prohibit campaign giveaways—including candy, food, and merchandise—and guidelines to guard against tampering with votes...
...that year, it helped provide Christmas meals to more than 100,000 people. In 1901, the first of many mass sit-down Christmas dinners at Madison Square Garden was funded by kettle donations. Despite occasional bans over the years on kettle set-ups outside stores and malls, which sometimes prohibit the bell ringers on the grounds that they block foot traffic and invite others to solicit at entryways, the Salvation Army says it raised $118 million through the program in 2007. (The charity is also in the process of distributing a $1.5 billion donation from Joan Kroc, the wife...
...damage to the reefs so heartbreaking is that the condition of south Florida's reef ecosystem seemed to be improving this year, if ever so slightly. The state seemed to be doing its share to safeguard the natural treasure. Lawmakers, for example, agreed to a long-term timeline to prohibit water utilities from dumping partially-treated sewage into the ocean. Federal and state agencies also finally moved a commercial ship anchorage that had caused years of sustained reef damage off Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale...
What's more, even states that prohibit gay adoptions have a very hard time refusing to recognize adoptions that are done in other states. Unlike marriage licenses, which are administrative in nature and subject to less powerful constitutional protection from state to state, an adoption takes effect by an explicit ruling by a judge. Adoption rulings are, therefore, the kinds of decisions that the U.S. Constitution's Full Faith and Credit Clause was designed to protect across state borders...
...member of the comedy groups the Immediate Gratification Players and “On Harvard Time.” According to UC Election Commission Chair Steven T. Cupps ’09, who is also a Crimson editorial writer, election rules do not prohibit Koenigs from running. James predicted that the mix of insider and humorous tickets would make this election “probably the most entertaining in recent memory...This year people will want to watch seriously, if only for comic relief.” Campaigning begins Monday, Dec 1 and voting will run from Friday...