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Word: allowable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...martini issue is very serious. A high priority in Carter's plan for tax reform is an assault on expense account dining that would allow only half the cost of a meal to be tax deductible. In his campaign Carter conjured up a vision of privilege and corruption by pointing out that a three-martini business lunch was deductible but not the $1.50 bologna sandwich of a worker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: In Defense of the Martini | 10/24/1977 | See Source »

...Antoine, dean of the University of Michigan Law School: "If you force me to bet, I'm going to bet that they reverse the Bakke case [and rule against him] . . . In my judgment there will be some provisions left open for an affirmative-action program that will allow making race an admissions distinction. The vote might be 6 to 3, and the majority opinion may be somewhat muddled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Guessing the Decision | 10/24/1977 | See Source »

Costs for extending the anthropology library hours include extra lighting and the salaries for guards or work--study students who staff Tozzer. Although several students at the meeting said they are willing to work as volunteers in the library, University regulations do not allow them...

Author: By Susan K. Brown, | Title: Leahy Will Probe Costs of Reopening Museum's Library | 10/24/1977 | See Source »

...this plea. Beat them, burn their books, burn their cars and shops. Show no mercy to informers and collaborators. They must all be killed. Long live the revolution! Power to the people!" I'm not pinning this [directly] on Biko, but this pamphlet is heavy meat. I cannot allow the black people to be intimidated by this sort of activism, just as I am not going to allow them to try and overthrow our state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: I Must Keep This Country Safe | 10/17/1977 | See Source »

...little effect on the nation's economy; expecting the inevitable, importers and exporters rushed container ship deliveries through the ports before the deadline. Although past dock strikes have frequently been ended by Taft-Hartley injunction, the Carter Administration has pledged to keep hands off for the moment to allow the free collective-bargaining process to work. If there is no quick settlement, the I.L.A. threatens to extend the strike to other types of vessels besides container ships. Oil tankers, which haul the nation's biggest import, would not be affected (no longshore labor is required to unload them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Container Woes in Dockland | 10/17/1977 | See Source »

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