Word: allowable
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After ten years of suffering and trying all the "cures," I went on the Weight Watchers diet and presto, my headaches were less frequent, shorter in duration and mild enough to allow me to go about my life. The old adage "You are what you eat" certainly applies to migraines...
...Jerusalem had many serious misgivings and did not appear eager for a Geneva meeting this year. Menachem Begin's government was adamantly opposed to a Palestine Liberation Organization presence at negotiations. By fostering new settlements on the West Bank, the Israeli government had made clear that it would not allow the establishment of an autonomous Palestinian state in the occupied land it refers to as Judea and Samaria. The U.S. estimate was that the Israelis would eventually go to Geneva, but it would be an uphill struggle merely to get them there...
...Tests on both animals and humans confirmed this, but the cyanate also had toxic side effects on the nervous system. So the Rockefeller scientists suggested adding the cyanate directly to the blood. That idea has led to the experimental development elsewhere of machines, somewhat like artificial kidney units, which allow the cyanate to react with the blood outside the body...
...would be phased in over three years and raise domestic crude-oil prices, now at an average $8.52 per bbl., to the current OPEC price of about $13.50 per bbl. The aim: to discourage domestic oil consumption. To encourage increased domestic production and reduce imports, the plan would allow the price of newly discovered oil to rise to the 1977 OPEC level, and the oil companies to retain the increased revenue. To lessen the draining effect of the wellhead tax on consumer spending power Carter proposed that much of the tax proceeds be recycled back to consumers in the form...
...Liberation of Palestine. Israeli military commanders believed that Syria might have condoned the rocketing, since the trucks that carried the Katyushas had not been halted at Syrian checkpoints just north of the Litani River. (The river marks the "Red Line" of Israel, below which it will not allow Syrian troops...