Word: allowed
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...People want to buy cars," says Rod Buscher, CEO of Summit Automotive Partners in Denver, which owns 30 assorted dealerships nationwide. And he really wants to sell cars. The problem is that would-be buyers lack either the income or the access to credit that would allow them to drive a new Malibu or Lincoln or Camry off the lot. That won't last forever; in fact, the automobile business figures to be good in 2011 and terrific in 2012 - which also happens to be an election year...
...should pray in the same room, but with women confined to a balcony. Böhm's design is flexible enough that one day both sexes could end up on the same level. "I'm an architect, not a politician," he says. "But I've included little details - like allowing men and women to come through the same doors - that allow for evolution. It's a process that'll take time, just as in the Catholic Church. My father could remember women sitting on the upper level in the church, and men downstairs...
...hostile acts," claiming that they strayed into North Korean territory from northeastern China. And despite a worsening economy, the regime said it would toss out international-aid workers who were delivering desperately needed food rather than accede to demands from both the U.S. and South Korea that the government allow aid agencies to monitor where the food goes. (See pictures...
...that if the British had had Cobra helicopters in 1842 it would not have lost its army in Afghanistan. But this shouldn't be cause to throw the history books on the bonfire. After three wars the British never managed to pacify Afghanistan - largely because the Pashtun wouldn't allow them...
...Netanyahu may viscerally oppose this plan. Even if he does not, selling it to his right-wing coalition partners may prove impossible. They refuse to divide Jerusalem and want to plow ahead with more Jewish settlements in the West Bank. As part of a coalition dealmaker, Netanyahu pledged to allow the construction of a new settlement of 3,500 dwellings outside Jerusalem that would surround the city's Arab neighborhoods. And his choice for Foreign Minister, Avigdor Lieberman, who has pronounced anti-Arab views and is under criminal investigation for allegedly taking bribes, has left the Americans and the Europeans...