Word: allowable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...persistence, though a solid virtue, still has its limits. One can always allow politicians their endless pursuits; many are harmless, and it's simple enough to ignore them as they make their way to the electoral junkheap. But for political writers one faces a different matter. Literature, even such a frequently-derided form as popular political fiction, is an art--and any pattern of mindless repetition, of going through the motions for their own sake, is bound to do violence to the art, to turn it into a game where some people lose out. Contemporary political fiction suffers from this...
...nearly zero population growth. The head count of residents over the period increased a scant .58% and today stands at 72,500. Santa Barbarans have decided they like it that way. Last week they overwhelmingly approved a local proposition requiring voter approval of any city council moves that would allow the population to rise above 85,000. The referendum, as one resident put it, offered Santa Barbarans a chance "to vote on how big they want this seaside jewel to become or not to become...
...University requested the variance to allow the building's construction in the MBTA car yards on Boylston St. without a 50-foot gap between the building edge and the property boundary. Otherwise, the building would interfere with MBTA operations and a Metropolitan District Commission (MDC) sewer line that cuts through the proposed site, Moulton said...
...union complaints certainly didn't encourage Gorski to stay on. So, having finished as much of the task of reorganization as the union seemed to allow, Gorski must have seen the new job in Wisconsin as an attractive offer...
Alden attempts to show the many struggles of T.R.'s life, illustrating the "bully" attitude that brought him success against the greatest adversities. This message, though hardly profound, becomes obscured by the sheer entertainment of the work. Rapid shifts from pathos to bathos allow the audience little opportunity to notice the underlying theme that unifies the play. Even a rather stirring finale fails to fully display the inner strength Roosevelt derived from his "bully" values, perhaps because those values seem somewhat outmoded and irrelevant today...