Word: allowable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...television program offerings weren't bad enough, now you can preserve the worst of the lot for posterity--or at least until summer reruns--with the most heralded new gift idea of the season, the videotape recorder. These miracles of modern technology allow the average masochist to tape the show he's watching, one he'd like to be watching on another channel, and even one that's on while he's away. Some...
...armchairm quarterback (or manager) the year's most interesting gift idea is a biorhythm prediction kit for professional football (or baseball). The charts and tables allow you to plot the biorhythms of the pros, to predict which team will triumph on which particular day. When you reach an advanced stage of the art, the ads say, you can even predict the score. Or at least how well Roger Staubach is getting along with his wife...
...career, but in taking on the challenge presented by the ol' Bard, the prospective director faces problems that are frustrating and occasionally insurmountable. William Shakespeare casts a justifiably formidable shadow, even though he died some 360 years ago. All of his plays have been produced too many times to allow real innovation. Thus a director must make the terrible choice of a fairly straightforward, traditional show, or an off-the-wall, modernistic production...
...committee also asked the Faculty to allow the CRR to make the transcripts of its hearings public, if both parties agree. The CRR does not currently release records of its hearings...
...board recommended that the council allow the research to continue. The council voted to do so, but set up the Biohazards Committee to monitor all recombinant DNA experiments...