Word: allowable
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Arthurs also said that the forms, which were to have been handed out March 1, should follow the original calendar and allow freshmen from one to two weeks to turn them into the housing office...
...month in office, Jimmy Carter last week had to deal with one of the most difficult questions that a President must confront: How much latitude to allow the CIA in conducting covert operations abroad? At issue was the revelation of secret payments to Jordan's King Hussein that, according to the Washington Post, began in 1957 and amounted to "millions of dollars." Carter acted decisively, ordering an immediate halt to the CIA'S largess to the King...
This spring the Faculty will be asked to decide whether to trim Gen Ed down to a more restrictive core of required courses or allow it to continue its present fertile growth...
...urged that both powers cease all nuclear testing for two or more years. If the Soviet Union insists on using nu clear explosives to divert a river in northern Russia as planned, Carter asked that U.S. experts be permitted to observe the project. The U.S., in turn, would allow Russians to watch any peaceful use of nuclear power for similar projects in the U.S., although none is planned. Apart from nuclear tests, Carter suggested that each side should notify the other in advance of any experimental missile launching. This would eliminate the danger that such a launching could be mistaken...
...reason is a system of sick-pay benefits so generous that it is widely abused. In addition to days when he himself is ill, a father of three children, for example, by law gets 18 paid sick days to allow him to be at home when one or more of his children is bedridden. Says Volvo President Pehr G. Gyllenhammar: "It is no longer a question of whether individual Swedes can afford to be sick and still receive pay, because this is an obvious right. It is a question of the country's ability to pay for the level...