Word: prohibitively
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...Indian consumers won't be able to partake of Wal-Mart's everyday low prices. India's restrictive commercial laws prohibit most foreign companies from setting up shop to compete with domestic retailers. So Wal-Mart's debut outlet, which will open in the city of Amritsar in northern India later this month, is a wholesale-only operation that will sell mainly to vegetable vendors, hospitals, hotels, restaurants and other companies. The Amritsar outlet won't even carry the familiar Wal-Mart brand. To deflect the attention of politicians and activists who oppose the entry of foreign multi-brand retailers...
...redefined as a union of two consenting, loving individuals in which reproduction is not a factor, then what reason is there to prevent two siblings or cousins from marrying? Reproduction cannot be a stipulation for marriage, as that would bar infertile couples from wedding. But then what stipulation would prohibit incest? The answer, of course, is incest’s status as a taboo...
...legislation that President Obama has said he wants on his desk by the end of the month. The bill, which builds on rules issued by the Federal Reserve Board and other agencies at the end of last year, would do away with interest-rate hikes on existing balances, prohibit issuers from putting customer payments toward lower-rate balances first and abolish the practice of raising a customer's interest rate because he was late paying a bill to someone else...
...hile copyright law might prohibit students from dropping by with scanners, it doesn’t stop them from noting what books are on the shelf and how much they cost,” wrote law school professor John G. Palfrey ’94, visiting Berkman fellow Wendy M. Seltzer ’96, and Angela Kang, then a second-year law student...
...leaking of sensitive government data on the banks. It is unlikely that anyone will be punished for passing along information which the public should never have seen before the pre-announced release date. The information caused movement in the stocks of a number of the banks. Disclosure regulations probably prohibit sharing what the government knew about the firms. In the fury of activity to prepare the findings and present them so that Wall St would not panic, the process of safe guarding the data was neglected. If several of the banks were found to be insolvent, the issue...