Word: allow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bill that emerged left the OEO structurally unscathed and authorized $2,258,000,000 for the current fiscal year, which was still $198 million more than Johnson had requested. The addi tional funds were earmarked for a variety of purposes including day-care centers to allow mothers receiving welfare to work, health and family-planning services and further efforts to promote small business and job training in slums...
...paper shuffling often holds up legal operations until the 24th week-producing live babies that sometimes cry for hours before dying. To avoid de facto infanticide, Swedish women flock to Poland for early, efficient $60 abortions. Appalled, the Swedish government has concluded that the law must be broadened to allow more and faster abortions...
...recently disapproved a Playtex bra commercial because "we don't want to show a girl in a filmy thing on a day when everyone's been to church and all." After he signed Elvis Presley for a record $50,000 for three appearances, Sullivan would not allow the camera to show the singer's gyrating pelvis. "He may be a purist," says Comic Jack...
...their attempts to counter the boycott, the Giumarra family have proved unusually resourceful. On August 5, they called a secret meeting of lawyers for the country's largest grape producers. The UFWOC learned from an informant who was present at the meeting that the growers would allow Giumarra to market grapes under all of their labels. Before the boycott effort had been initiated, Giu- marra sold grapes under six labels; the two most well known were "Arra Grapes" and "Grape King." Now, according to union information, there are at least 35 different labels used for grapes grown by Giumarra...
...often being close to losing his job, and the continuous personal criticism, he does not outwardly show it. All he has to say to the problems his personality creates is "We don't have any solution but to get to work before seven and quite after six to allow time for this silliness and our real business...