Word: prohibitively
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...perhaps lay claim to being the homophobia capital of the U.S. Since 1991, the Rev. Fred Phelps, 75, has led his family in campaigns against everyone from "sodomites" and "fag enablers" to victims of 9/11. More recently the Phelpses initiated a referendum on the March 1 ballot that would prohibit laws protecting gay rights. The family is also supporting one of Fred's 53 grandchildren, Jael Phelps, 20, a prim nursing student who once picketed Matthew Shepard's funeral, in her run against city councilwoman Tiffany Muller, 26, who co-sponsored a law late last year that shields gays from...
Dean O’Keefe’s solution? Ask for an extension. But a one day extension on a 15-page paper that you haven’t yet started the reading for—if you can even get an extension, what with all the professors who prohibit extensions under any circumstances—is unlikely to solve the problem...
...Bhutan This Himalayan nation became the first to prohibit not only smoking in public, but also all sales of tobacco. In a kingdom with few smokers (owing in part to a local belief that traces the tobacco plant's origin to a she-devil), the black-market price of a pack of Marlboros has doubled, to $2.60, since the ban took effect in December...
...event necessarily limits the Council’s ability to inquire into shows’ and movies’ content with extensive thoroughness or to censor controversial material within a given screening, and few if any undergrads who have taken advantage of these events would contend that this should prohibit the Council from fulfilling its mission and responsibility to provide such services to the student body. When Fox Broadcasting Company contacted the Council to suggest that Harvard students be offered the chance to see episodes of the show “24” prior to their...
...partisan politics, a no-no for nonprofits. N.A.A.C.P. chairman Julian Bond, who has accused the Bush Administration of drawing its "most rabid supporters from the Taliban wing of American politics," calls the probe an attempt to silence the group. "We're not going to allow any institution to prohibit us from fighting racism," he says...