Word: allowable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bill of Rights, a copy of which hangs on his office wall, and particularly the Fourth Amendment, which prohibits "unreasonable searches" of private property. The inspector, Barlow insisted, needed a search warrant to inspect his place of business. After Barlow ignored a federal judge's order to allow the inspector in, the Government went back to court, and a three-judge federal panel agreed with the contractor. Then the Government appealed, and last week the Supreme Court, in a 5-to-3 decision, ruled that Barlow, a John Birch Society Democrat, was legally right: employers can bar OSHA inspectors...
...blind individual might only want to be told when it is safe to cross or he may want to help crossing, in which case the sighted person should allow the blind person to take hold of an elbow. One should never feed, pet or otherwise distract a guide dog unless expressly permitted by its master. Nor should one grab a blind person's cane or the arm holding...
...just what had happened, officials of the President's Reformista Party were claiming victory. But so was Guzmán. The wealthy 67-year-old rancher and coffee planter told a news conference: "It is up to the electoral board to declare me the winner. We will not allow the official election results to be altered." Manuel Joaquin Castillo, head of the board, insisted that no one had yet won and at week's end announced that the counting of ballots had resumed. He warned his countrymen, however, that the tally "might take ten or 15 days...
President Sadat proposed a referendum on whether Egypt should continue to allow political activity by 1) those who "advocate an ideology contrary to divine law," and 2) those who in previous times were convicted of "corrupting the country's political life." His targets were obvious: 1) a small but active leftist party, and 2) the leaders of the re-emerging Wafd (delegation) Party, which dominated the country in the days of King Farouk...
...father's fierce passion for horses, even spending college weekends trackside at Laurel, Bowie or Pimlico while classmates went off to football games. Hirsch did his best to insulate his daughter from the touts, railbirds and assorted other lowlifes who populated his world. "Dad doesn't allow me to hang around the barns too much while we are at Belmont and Aqueduct," she once told a reporter, "but at Saratoga [then, as now, a more genteel track] I get out there with him and the horses on a pony...