Word: allowable
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...among most South Carolina voters because they believe it would promote unionization of the state's textile and other industries. But on fiscal matters he is more attuned to the Deep South voters: he proposes freezing federal spending for two years at current levels, which he says would allow revenues to catch up and eliminate the budget deficit...
...unexpected boost for his cause from an old enemy. Faced with a grave fertilizer shortage that threatened famine and food shortages, Zambia's President Kenneth Kaunda reluctantly announced that he would reopen his country's border with Rhodesia to permit vital imports and to allow the rail shipment of Zambian copper to ports in South Africa and Mozambique...
...question: At what price shall the environment be protected? Opponents of refunding want to make the Endangered Species Act less rigid, especially when a species is being protected at the expense of what they consider the larger public good. Accordingly, some members of Congress have submitted legislation that would allow endangered flora and fauna to be wiped out if saving them proved too costly. Says an aide to Robin Beard, a Tennessee Republican leading the House antifunding forces: "The problem now is that the law allows no exceptions. It doesn't matter what the circumstances...
...Environmentally concerned legislators in the House last week were scrambling to gain support for a compromise funding bill already passed by the Senate. The measure would create a seven-member committee, composed mostly of federal officials, to rule on possible exceptions to the Endangered Species Act and would also allow the $15.7 million budget needed to enforce it for another year...
EASIER CHECK-INS. To cut the lines at the check-in counters, American and TWA are issuing advance boarding passes for return flights. These allow a traveler who has only carry-on luggage to go directly to the boarding gate to catch a flight home...