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become so overrun with queries and manuscripts that many literary agencies have put the kibosh on submissions from unpublished novelists. 27.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