Word: allowing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sally and Luke's romance is the heart of Coming Home. Though the illicit affair of a beautiful woman and a cripple is potentially mawkish stuff, Ashby usually does not allow his story to become overly sentimental. He does not view the couple's relationship as a panacea for all their emotional problems, and he refuses to shy away from harsh detail. When Luke finally leaves his wheelchair to join Sally in bed, the hero's handicaps bring the ensuing sex scene an added poignance...
Carter's hastily worked-out measure was designed to counter the popularity of the two rival aid proposals now before Congress. One plan, introduced in the Senate last fall by Oregon Republican Robert Packwood and New York Democrat Daniel Patrick Moynihan, would allow a taxpayer to deduct up to 50% of the money paid for his children's tuition fees at private elementary and secondary schools and at colleges and universities, up to a limit of $500 per child. In comparison, the College Tuition Tax Relief Act proposed by Delaware's Republican Senator William Roth is, like...
After the University had invested more than $40 million in constructing about one-third of the planned facility, the state Department of Environmental Quality Engineering on January 31 determined that the planned electrical generators would raise area levels of nitrogen dioxide air pollutant dangerously high. The agency refused to allow inclusion of the generators, which project officials have termed crucial to the plant's economic viability...
...dancer, points out that "the dancers are treated more as puzzles than works of art: the pieces are space and time, shape and rhythm The rest is up to us [the dancers] We put the puzzle together, making of it what we can, bringing to it what our imaginations allow...
...student turn with gripes such as those mentioned above? Who now organizes college-wide activities? Who investigates the quality of medical services at UHS? Who investigates the Food Services and proposes alternative menus at comparable prices? Who looks into the allocation of student employment or questions budget priorities that allow $500 fee increases year after year? These areas are only given token consideration now. If for no other reason, we need a central student association as a coordinator and a breath of fresh air. If Harvard lacks student unity, it is not because we are so diverse--it is because...