Word: forbiddingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years the six Common Market partners discussed the problem of opening their frontiers to one another's agricultural produce. Because powerful farmers' associations in each country had to be considered and appeased, the resulting agreements apparently proved too rigid to cope with bumper crops everywhere. The accords forbid selling surplus produce within the market and call, instead, for destruction of perishable crops when prices sink to a fixed minimum level. The purpose was to protect the farmer by assuring him a reasonable income...
...TRADITION: "When I say that we must look to the future rather than the past, I'm not suggesting that we should not revere our ancestors. Heaven forbid. The nearer I get to being one, the more reverent I feel...
...place is really safe," says a young Negro journalist in Detroit. "When I have a white girl in my car, I don't stop at red lights, I make sure my car's in good condition with the gas tank full and a good spare. God forbid I should have to stop somewhere with a white girl...
Responding to strongly worded advice from President Robert W. Haack of the N.Y.S.E., several brokerage firms have begun taking direct action to cool the speculative fervor. E. F. Hutton & Co. announced that it will forbid its salesmen to solicit orders to buy stocks selling for less than $5 a share and will allow them no commission on such orders. Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, the nation's largest securities concern, said it plans to increase restrictions on margin accounts...
...notorious source of housing-cost inflation is local building codes, which often outlaw new materials and methods. Factory-assembled plumbing can save builders $200 per house, but hundreds of localities forbid it. Around Chicago, builders generally must string electric wiring inside half-inch metal pipes instead of nonmetallic sheathed cable. The extra cost: $150 per house. Pittsburgh's Ryan Homes sells a three-bedroom house for $19,300 in one suburb, but is forced to charge $3,000 more for an almost identical model a few miles away...