Word: allowable
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...official documents and left our home. We ran across the street, gathering with the other residents in front of the gate of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency headquarters. Young wide-eyed children, wailing infants, men and women stood begging the guard to open the gate and allow them to take cover inside. The guard refused. "Go to the UNRWA shelters," he shouted. "There's one 10 minutes away." We all knew those shelters weren't safe, that 48 people had already been killed in them...
...Place a medium sauté pan over high heat and add sugar. Allow the sugar to caramelize dry in the pan; then add butter and banana slices...
...Allow bananas to caramelize well then remove from pan leaving pan "juices" behind...
...cuts: About $310 billion worth of tax cuts have been proposed. Many of these provisions are onetime measures that would allow companies to write off 2008 and 2009 losses and small businesses to write off expenditures up to $250,0000; a one-year tax credit would give companies $3,000 for each new hire and employee retained. Obama has also suggested a $500 rebate for individuals and $1,000 for couples; even those who don't make enough to pay taxes would receive some kind of rebate for the taxes that are automatically deducted for Medicare and Social Security. Republicans...
...especially frustrating for him to be prevented from running pictures or firsthand reporting from the war zones in northern Sri Lanka. The government claims that the 25-year-old war is finally approaching an end - an event any journalist would be eager to cover - but it has refused to allow reporters or photographers regular access to the war zones or to those areas where an estimated 230,000 people have been stranded amid the shelling...