Word: allowable
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After a lengthy controversy last year over whether the city should ban recombinant DNA research, the City Council in February followed the recommendations of a citizen's review board to allow the research to proceed under certain conditions--one of which was the creation of the BHC to monitor the research...
...University is now trying to raise an additional $1 million for Greek Studies, which would allow Harvard to hire an assistant professor, fund two graduate student fellowships, and pay for library resources in the field, but it had little success to date in soliciting additional funds, Peterson said...
...most aggressive states is Illinois. Its film board has attracted six major productions this year, including The Fury, a Fox $6 million spy thriller starring Kirk Douglas. Governor James Thompson lent a state helicopter to the crew to scout locations, waived permits to allow equipment to be hauled across state lines and persuaded the owners of a Lake Forest estate to allow filming in their home. When Director Robert Altman was filming A Wedding, for 20th Century-Fox distribution (the movie stars Mia Farrow and Geraldine Chaplin), Thompson declared a Robert Altman Week and held a big bash...
...Maccoby's book is that he does prcisely what he scores his subjects for doing. By abstracting business from the unavoidable reality of money, common ambition and greed, he becomes too cerebral. By dealing solely with psychological impulses, he over-analyzes as badly as the Gamesman who cannot allow compassion to enter his own careful cost-benefit analyses. Perhaps this was intentional--the Gamesman Maccoby portrays is certainly an interesting figure, and interesting figures sell books--but more likely it was simply the product of an understandable enthusiasm to make a careful scholarly presentation as entertaining as possible. Given...
...suit, filed in the District Court of Boston in 1974, claims only the 238 acres of the town's common land, including the environmentally fragile cliffs, but many non-Indian residents fear a precedent that could allow the Wamponoags to claim land that is now owned privately, as well. Indeed, 'the Indians' lawyer has stated that the same principle that allows the Indians to claim the common lands applies to all the land in Gay Head and some Indian factions want to assert that legal right...