Word: allowable
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...Washington Drill, Baby, Drill The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill that would allow offshore drilling as close as 50 miles (80 km) from land but would curb tax benefits for oil companies and mandate greater use of renewable energy. Democrats, who for more than two decades have opposed coastal drilling, lauded the effort as a logical compromise, but Republicans dismissed it as a political gimmick unlikely to pass the Senate before the upcoming recess...
...This ruling will restore the quiet and the clean air in Yellowstone for everyone to enjoy.' AMY MCNAMARA, director of the Greater Yellowstone Coalition, after a federal judge rejected a plan to allow more than 500 snowmobiles a day into the national park...
...traversing the great forests and farms of the American Heartland! We were wild! We were free!Sure we had our flaws. Perhaps we should have been reading “On the Road” along the way rather than David Sedaris. But certainly the free-lovers would still allow us to partake of their Kool-Aid, right?But instead of delicious red fruit-punch nectar, I found five-dollar-a-cup, more-ice-than-liquid lemonade sold from one of hundreds of stands waiting to take all your money as you stood dehydrated in the Southern sun. There were...
...Even though it is closely connected with Great Britain, a country whose connections to Zimbabwe remain strong, the United States never occupied Zimbabwe. Furthermore, since the United States relies less on trade with Africa than several other capable powers, such as China, the United States can approach negotiations to allow foreign aid as a neutral party interested on behalf of humanity...
Obviously, Harvard should not implement this policy suddenly. Instead, the admissions office should announce now that it will stop considering private-school students five or six years from today. This will allow students who are currently enrolled in private school to get their shot while still pushing wannabe members of the Class of 2017 toward public institutions...