Word: allowable
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Even those who take the position that there is some legitimate purpose served by making criminals out of those who smoke marijuana should admit that the law has gone too far for too long, and that restrictions should be relaxed to allow marijuana to be prescribed when doctors feel that the symptoms call for it. Some day marijuana may reduce the suffering of many patients and even save the lives of others. This will not require a new medical breakthrough, but only a modest effort to overcome the vestiges of paranoia from another...
Most House dining halls are now open to allow students to study during exam period...
Last Tuesday's chaos in the markets convinced Blumenthal that intervention had to begin immediately. Says Blumenthal: "We have all along said that we would not allow disorderly markets, yet that is what this thing was becoming-totally irrational." First thing Wednesday morning. Federal Reserve officials telephoned their counterparts at the West German Bundesbank. The Germans eagerly agreed to make available the $2 billion worth of marks provided by an existing swap agreement, and reportedly even to kick in as much as $2 billion more...
...vacationers returns home doubled over with diarrhea. In a one-year period that ended last Thanksgiving, 73 cruise ships underwent a total of 625 U.S. Government sanitation-standards inspection tests -and failed the tests two-thirds of the time. Unfortunately there are no laws on the books that would allow Washington either to order the ships cleaned up or stop them from sailing. If the salad days of the cruise business are to continue, the operators must voluntarily get the bugs out-so to speak...
Sunday case, Vermont Superior Judge Wynn Underwood, himself an avid skier, refused to allow immediate dismissal "simply because there are some inherent risks in the sport." Ironically, Underwood cited vastly improved maintenance and patrol operations at major ski areas as one reason operators might be held to blame. On such well-groomed slopes, the judge suggested, skiers no longer expect to encounter boulders or stumps and thus can no longer be responsible for assuming that high risks exist in the natural course of things...