Word: allowable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard heavyweight crew almost never loses, so why should coach Harry Parker allow this year to be any different? And since the EAWRC Sprints were cancelled last year. Peter Huntsman's Radcliffe lightweights are still the defending champs, and heavyweight coach Carie Graves preserves a 2-2 record in interscholastic competition...
...cautious attempt to avoid inciting the army, Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, the opposition's exiled religious leader, last week issued new orders to his followers to avoid "indiscriminate violence." He also declared that he bore "no hostility" toward countries that might give the Shah asylum and would allow continued oil shipments to the West. "Our relations with the U.S.," he added, "would be good relations as long as the U.S. stops supporting the Shah and leaves us to decide our own destiny...
...people want." And what was that? As one Western expert put it last week, "Iranians want a slower pace, a more traditional society. In a Muslim country, the duty of a good government is simply not to interfere in the lives of its people too much and to allow them to live as good Muslims." Whether Iran will get that kind of government is still far from certain...
...Ruhollah Khomeini, 37,000 militant Iranian oil workers and technicians had virtually closed down the country's production, reducing the oil flow from 6 million bbl. a day to a drip of 75,000 bbl. Last week, as if to demonstrate his absolute mastery, Khomeini ordered workers to allow enough crude production from the fields to satisfy Iran's 900,000-bbl. domestic needs-but no more. TIME Correspondent Dean Brelis visited the oilfields in the southern province of Khuzestan as militant workers returned to their jobs. His report...
...company's profits) but cyclical. Amexco stands to get a much higher profit by investing its pile of cash in a capital-intensive business like publishing instead of in securities. The company could sell magazines and books to its 9 million mostly affluent credit card holders, allow them to charge their subscriptions on the card, and, if the cardholders gave their permission, automatically renew the subscriptions without going to the costly bother of resoliciting them every year...