| 21. | Mike Medavoy, the head of Tri-Star then, was the guy who put the kibosh on it.
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| 22. | Fort Mason officials put the kibosh on Tchong's plans to beef up the ambience with a rented camel.
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| 23. | Ivens'leftist politics also put the kibosh on his first feature film project which was to have starred Greta Garbo.
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| 24. | "Unfortunately that put the kibosh on a lot of decorating, " said Mary Spence, director of human resources.
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| 25. | It wasn't exactly a no-show, but heavy cloud cover put the kibosh on our hoped-for viewing.
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| 26. | They've become so overrun with queries and manuscripts that many literary agencies have put the kibosh on submissions from unpublished novelists.
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| 27. | What really put the kibosh on speculators, though, was Thailand's decision yesterday to stop lending them any more baht.
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| 28. | And the meaning of to put the kibosh on is widely understood : " to forbid, with unmistakable conclusiveness ."
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| 29. | But a mid-' 70s ban on CFCs and on the use of aluminum zirconium in aerosols put the kibosh on those sprays.
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| 30. | The government put the kibosh on the popular " Operation Dear Abby " as well as " Any Servicemember ."
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