Word: allowable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...need a value system that will allow us to fulfill our essential human and humane tasks -to be producers, to be providers and to be protectors...
...survive politically. For the second year in a row, an international financial consortium made up of the U.S., Saudi Arabia, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and several European countries has agreed to a multibillion-dollar aid package covering Egypt's foreign-currency needs. Though that will allow Sadat to import enough wheat to keep his people fed, they still hunger for the peace-borne prosperity he has led them to expect. Says one White House official: "If we can't get the negotiations process restarted now, Sadat may have to take a walk. If that happens...
...European neighbors, and more recently from Third World countries where labor costs are lower. To keep C.I.T.F. going, Boussac mortgaged more and more of his possessions, which include race horses, half a dozen chateaux and the morning Paris newspaper L'Aurore. Finally, unable to borrow further, he reluctantly allowed the company to be taken over by a court-appointed receiver who will decide what, if anything, can be done to salvage C.I.T.F.'s 11,500 jobs. Last week, in an effort to keep C.I.T.F. alive, Boussac offered to give up his entire $170 million personal fortune to help...
...controversial decision to allow the joining of the nation's seventh (Jones & Laughlin) and eighth (Youngstown) largest steelmakers into what will become the third or fourth biggest clearly hinged on Lykes' doomsday prediction. That prophecy could have proved self-fulfilling, because customers, suppliers and creditors all began to abandon the company for fear it would collapse. Bell rejected his own in-house advice that Lykes could be saved and competition maintained by selling assets to raise cash. The weakness of the company, he said, "led me to conclude that Lykes faced a grave probability of a business failure...
Steiner is uncritical of the vagueness of diversity at Harvard, and even goes so far as to praise the "flexibility" of Harvard's admissions policy. "I think they're [minorities] about as firmly ensconsed in the admissions program as the objectives of the Harvard admissions goals can allow," he says. In that light, and in light of the tenuous position minority recruitment enjoys at Harvard, a certain amount of uneasiness over the adequacy of diversity-oriented policies is more than justified...