Word: allowance
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cambridge realtor and Proposition 1-2-3 author Frederick R. Meyer said Rosemary D. White of the Cambridge Homeownership Association (CHOA) conceived of the slogan because "we need to get people thinking about what we allow choices for and what...
Although the council discussed several ways to avoid future deadlocks, several councillors said they could not take action in time to keep the referendum--which would allow some tenants in rent-controlled housing to buy their apartments--out of court...
Dreamed up as an "epic" and "historic" way to celebrate 100 years of statehood, the Great Montana Centennial Cattle Drive turned out to be an epic logistical headache and a historic huckster's delight (kitschy western "art" and $3,000 gold-plated Winchester rifles for sale). To allow 2,400 people (including a handful of real cowboys), 200 wagons and 2,800 cattle to plod 50 miles and six days from Roundup to Billings, U.S. Highway 87 had to be closed for two days. Saturday mail service to 15,000 Billings residents was canceled in anticipation of the drive...
...another sign of red-hot rivalry in the U.S. market, General Motors' Oldsmobile division said last week that it would adopt a novel guarantee: Oldsmobile will allow buyers of its new cars who are dissatisfied for any reason to return the autos within 30 days (or 1,500 miles) for full credit on a different Olds...
...such a situation for the first time when it considers the case of Nancy Cruzan, 32, a Missouri factory worker who has been in an irreversible vegetative state for six years. The court has been asked to decide whether there is a constitutional right of privacy broad enough to allow Cruzan's family to disconnect the feeding tubes that nourish her, and thereby to let her die. An alliance of disability-rights activists and antiabortion groups has already begun to clash with patients' advocates and civil libertarians in what promises to be a bitter battle...