Word: allowable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shares (25% of the total), which have a current market price of about $15 a share. He had already disclosed that he would use all of the 3.7 million shares he controlled to support amendments to the company charter that make tender offers all but impossible. One proposal would allow anyone holding more than 20% of Avis stock to veto a takeover. Even after the sale of the 2 million shares, Smith will hold 22% of the stock...
Robert B. Watson '37, director of athletics whose impending retirement has sparked a controversy over the selection of his successor, announced Wednesday that he will remain at Harvard for another semester to allow the University more time to choose a new athletic director...
...football championship, and Winthrop is locked in a scoreless tie with Lowell. In the final play of the half, Lowell is deep in its own territory with the length of the field to go for a touchdown. Coach Rich Brody instructs Winthrop defenseman Bob Phoopher to drop back and allow his man any reception as long as it's not a touchdown. Phoopher remembers these words, and starts the play forty yards off the line of scrimmage. He remembers as the pass goes up and he's still ten yards closer than his man to the defending goal line...
...BEING CALLED A TERRORIST. I don't give a damn what I'm called. I'm used to it. Let me explain. In the '40s, the Germans were killing our brethren. No Jews were allowed to come into this country. We begged the British, "Open the gates; let them come in." What did we do? We started to fight, to open the gates and allow our people to be saved from destruction. We started to fight to save our people. Now take [Palestine Liberation Organization Leader Yasser] Arafat. What is his aim? He said...
...Middle East, Perez sought to persuade his warring OPEC colleagues to accept a compromise. His proposal was presumably along these lines: the Eleven would forgo the 5% price increase scheduled to go into effect in July; in return, so the speculation goes, the Saudis and Emirates would allow their prices to rise, gradually closing the 10% differential...