Word: allowances
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shake-up stunned commentators and ordinary citizens abroad. Disappointed with U.S. inaction on energy, European political leaders generally were happy to see Energy Secretary James Schlesinger go. They cheered the firing of Treasury Secretary W. Michael Blumenthal, who has never lived down his brief willingness a year ago to allow the dollar to fall to its lowest levels ever. They applauded his replacement by G. William Miller, who as chairman of the Federal Reserve Board showed a tough-minded determination to protect the dollar by tightening up on money policy, even at the risk of slowing the U.S. economy...
...hasty an imposition of these graduation requirements can discriminate against past victims of segregation. North Carolina gave students three years' notice when its 1980 target date for competency testing was announced in 1977, a schedule almost as short as Florida's. However, North Carolina officials, who will allow students at least five tries at an acceptable score, say that a greater percentage of pupils, black and white, have already passed the state tests...
Many Cambridge tenants will soon be paying higher rents, because the city's Rent Control Board recently announced it will allow long-delayed rent increases...
Unfortunately, the play does not allow her to establish any defined relationship with Dr. Schon, her benefactor (David Reiffel). The scenes involving the two of them, with the exception of Lulu's declaration of love, lack any sense of tension or attraction. Here Reiffel might improve his otherwise effectively sardonic characterization by displaying more passion. He is so ironic and biting that his later capitulation does not ring true...
...decision to allow the courtship shows its new tolerance of mergers...