Word: allowable
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...meeting Bowersock also reported that the Faculty had voted to allow greater flexibility in considering students for summa cum laude who did not meet a particular grade-point average. Bowersock said "students who had proved their merit in other ways could get 'summas' as a result of this change...
Then on Jan. 17 President Carter stepped into the legislative process. He asked House Speaker Tip O'Neill to delay consideration of a rule that would allow the postal bill to come to the floor for a vote. This is a highly unusual attempt by the White House to prevent congressional deliberation of an important national question...
That situation could change should Ethiopia invade Somalia. In that event, the Shah of Iran and Egypt's Anwar Sadat have already offered to help. Somalia is meanwhile getting "nonmilitary" financial assistance from West Germany, partly out of gratitude for the decision to allow West German commandos to fly into Mogadishu and rescue 86 hostages in the Lufthansa hijacking last October. For the moment, the West is backing the OAU committee which is seeking a negotiated settlement to the Ethiopian-Somalian conflict. Says an African diplomat in Nairobi: "It's a difficult question but not insoluble. The important...
Vellucci, however, will remain true to himself. He says he does not plan to change his support of the liberals' positions in favor of rent control and opposing condominium conversion and vacancy decontrol, a procedure that would allow landlords to raise rents when an apartment is vacated...
Woods also wanted to allow his five children to finish their year in British schools, Thomson added...