Word: allowable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fuel Source. Pérez is keenly interested in a U.S. oil-extraction process that could allow Venezuela's big Orinoco tar pools to be developed as a fuel source. The problem is that Caracas nationalized the petroleum industry 18 months ago and now many firms are wary of risking more capital in Venezuela with its new, highly nationalistic investment rules. As for the question of preferential tariff treatment for Venezuela, eliminated by Congress for all OPEC members after the 1973 oil embargo. Carter promised to do all he could to get Congress to rectify the punitive measure...
...which politicians, journalists, lobbyists and bureaucrats converge in ways that profoundly affect the country's political course. In McCarthy's Washington, the women rarely manipulate men to influence policy; nor are they exploited by men to further masculine political careers. Mostly these women offer soothing sensitivities that allow ideas and personalities to merge across dinner tables with a minimum of friction. Sure, it's all a game, concedes Laura Talbert, a veteran hostess and one of McCarthy's leading characters. But the game is played "in the greatest arena of all, where the survival of humanity...
...prison. Mitchell has received an advance from Simon & Schuster reportedly totaling $50,000. Last month Haldeman announced that he was writing a "gloves-off book on Watergate; the size of his advance from Quadrangle The New York Times Book Co. has not been disclosed. Their prison lives should allow both men to solve one problem that traditionally bedevils authors-lack of uninterrupted time for writing...
...surgeon, a professor of geography, a former ARVN major, two bankers, two nurses, several fishermen, and 16 children under the age of ten. Captain Tadmor made an unscheduled stop in Hong Kong to get the refugees desperately needed medical attention; authorities in the British crown colony refused to allow them ashore on the ground that the Yuvali was not scheduled to call at Hong Kong...
...Allow a witness to bring his attorney into the grand jury room...