Word: allowance
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...deadlocked City Council last night reversed the stance it took in August and blocked indefinitely a plan to allow Stop and Shop Inc. to create an ultra-modern supermarket...
After exhausting their fascination with Margaret Thatcher, a few of the guests allow as how, yes, one might think that marrying dead people is bizarre. But as an occasional feature of life in these parts for longer than anyone can remember, "ghost marriages" are just another relic of ancient China, another relatively harmless superstition for a billion people struggling to jerk themselves toward the 21st century...
...endorses Gorbachev's proposals for reforming the Soviet agricultural system. New land-rental policies, for example, allow farmers for the first time to share profits with the state, a step that Dull hopes will eventually lead to private ownership. "My sons are enthusiastic about farming, but here the farmers have nothing to be enthusiastic about," he says. "If private farmers are given freedom of choice, they'll develop a productive agriculture that fits their circumstances." A few hundred feet from the Dulls' house are two privately run greenhouses, set up by a five-man rental group that recently entered into...
...settlement reached this week between HRE, the Boston Fair Housing Commission and graduate student Christopher H. Stewart requires the University to disregard sexual orientation when deciding whether to allow the "domestic partner" of a Harvard affiliate to live in affiliated housing...
Stewart and Thomas L. Woods filed a complaint against HRE and the University in March, after the housing office refused to allow them to live together in Stewart's Harvard apartment without presenting a marriage certificate...