Word: allowables
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...real one-party press, not through free expression but through open intimidation by the top officials of our Government." The Chicago Sun-Times said Agnew's attitude recalled a 1920 quote by Lenin: "Why should a government that is doing what it believes to be right allow itself to be criticized? It would not allow opposition by lethal weapons. Ideas are much more fatal than guns." To suggest even remotely that the Nixon Administration takes a Leninist attitude toward the press is patently absurd...
...President's chief economic adviser, warned the businessmen of sacrifices ahead. "You will have to steel yourselves to the fact that all the things happening are all the wrong things-lower profits, a cost squeeze." Even after the "painful transition" is over, he said, the Government will not allow the economy to resume its rapid rate of growth. Instead of annual increases in spending of 8%-10%, the growth will be held down, McCracken said, and "this difference should be kept firmly in mind." Labor Secretary Shultz said that the businessmen would have to face union demands without Government...
Recent court rulings have held that a Massachusetts city cannot pass a rent control law unless it has such "enabling legislation" from the legislature. The legislature approved it for Boston, and several bills to allow any city in the state to pass rent control are currently before the legislation specifically for Cambridge, so that it would still be able to pass rent control even if the more general, state-wide enabling legislation did not pass...
...prosthetic phallus which belonged to Thirsites. When fastened to his loincloth it was visible only when he turned upstage, and its curves were those of a snake. Released, and it was left hanging a good deal of the time, it hung to his knees. Insofar as it did not allow him the modesty allowed to those around him, it gave him a reason for his cynicism. Insofar as, when it was it was present, the full dramatic force of the play swung on its axis, it gave Thirsites immediately the authority which on the page he achieves only...
Harvey Brooks, dean of Engineering and Applied Physics and chairman of the subcommittee, declined yesterday to comment on the recommendations. But they probably suggest, respectively, that Harvard join M.I.T. on the governing board of the Project, and that it not join the governing board but allow individual professors and students to sign contracts with the Project...