Word: forbiddingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...expires next June, the job remains his for the asking. As presidential contender John McCain suggested earlier this month, the one sure way to continue America's economic prosperity is to have Greenspan stay on, whether he is alive or dead. "If Mr. Greenspan should happen to die, God forbid... I would prop him up and put a pair of dark glasses...
...federal sovereignty and free trade. Then there are the environmentalists. To protect sea turtles, an endangered species, they want an import ban on shrimp caught in nets that don't have escape hatches to let the turtles swim away. Congress has adopted such a ban, but the WTO forbids it; member nations can't block imports on the basis of the way they are produced. The organization may also eventually forbid American "antidumping" laws that bar the import of low-cost foreign steel. Those laws are important to American unions. The WTO used the same logic in siding with...
Davis then found that, having proposed his motion, council regulations forbid open debate on the matter. The motion--according to rules established in the council's constitution--would have to be voted up or down without discussion...
...Mihaileanu: The script was written before Life is Beautiful. I started it in 1993. I forbid myself to write without a producer, so I stopped work on it until 1995, when I met the producer. Then it took me three months to write the script. The conditions of the concentration camp don't interest me--what interests me is those people, in the shtetl, the lost people. I focused on their ways of living and fighting and loving. I pay more attention to the people, not the horrors of the camp; it is more collective...
...this situation continues, Lin forms a strong attachment to Manna Wu, a young nurse at his base hospital. That is, she was young when she and Lin first met, but Manna has grown understandably restive during a long courtship that never gets beyond some furtive hand holding. (Army rules forbid unmarried couples from even walking together outside the compound walls.) She keeps urging Lin to divorce his wife, and every year he goes back to his village and tries to do so. And every year Shuyu agrees to his request but then changes her mind when they appear before...