Word: prohibitively
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...unemployed, the kingdom imports 6 million foreign workers to fill the low-wage jobs Saudis don't want. Restive and jobless young Saudis have nowhere to turn in an antidemocratic society governed by puritanical social norms: Saudi authorities ban dance clubs and movie theaters, forbid women to drive and prohibit men and women from mixing in public. "That adds up to a fragile situation," says a U.S. official...
Building projects in the North Yard—such as those called for by the Law School’s long range plans—could only be undertaken after assurances that they would not prohibit a move to Allston...
Just last week, Levin met with a Justice Department official to discuss whether jointly agreeing with other schools to abolish early admissions would violate antitrust laws that prohibit colleges from collaborating on admissions procedures...
...banning somatic cell nuclear transfer, one step in the process to clone a human, the bill will also prohibit scientists from developing stem cells that won’t be rejected by a patient’s body, Corlette said...
...worse, states ignore the fact that retailers sell cigarettes to children regularly, in violation of state laws. Government agencies should be enforcing these laws to prevent children from becoming future addicted smokers. Retailers should be harshly punished for selling to minors, demand proof of age and prohibit vending machine sales. But state governments are not making serious efforts to implement these changes because to do so would mean losing future tax revenue crucial to finance state programs. Even the nineteenth-century French ruler Napoleon III, who was urged to ban tobacco, once remarked, “This vice brings...