Word: allowing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...time. The night before the voting began, some 500 delegates were instructed on debating and voting procedures. They were told not to leave the floor without permission. Kentucky Delegate Allie Hixson, a cattle breeder, exhorted her state's representatives: "We want to be disciplined, cooperative, supportive. Arrive early, allow for the overload in elevators and let nothing delay you, pro-plan people." Said Bonnie Lesley, a Texas delegate: "We're calling on you to be more disciplined, perhaps, than you have ever been...
...will demand specially designed piping, valves and moving machinery. The exhaust water will have to be pumped back into the earth to avoid turning the area into a swamp. The economics will look more encouraging, however, if Congress adopts a provision now in a pending tax bill that will allow a tax credit of 50? per 1,000 cu. ft. of geopressured gas recovered...
...around 9:30 that night (which is also too late for visitors) and he spent the rest of the evening adjusting himself to life with a petty despot. The old man entertained his guests with instructions on how to peel oranges and tune television sets--not that he would allow anyone to perform either of these operations on his grounds. These were discorses on the theory of peeling and tuning-expanded at length into the logical basis of racial inequalities. He had forced food upon them, then demanded to know why they were eating him out of house and home...
...spokesman for Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D.-Mass.), chairman of the Senate Health and Sciences Subcommittee, said yesterday the new legislation would retain a 5-per-cent mandatory increase in enrollment in the third year class at American medical schools for one year. The change would, however, allow the schools to choose from an unlimited pool of foreign-trained Americans and transfers from two-year American programs...
...dominance. That policy got IBM into trouble with the U.S. Justice Department, which in 1969 charged the company with monopolistic practices in a suit that is now in the trial stage. Last week officials in another country-India-discovered just how dear IBM holds its 100% philosophy. Rather than allow a minority Indian holding in its local manufacturing, sales and maintenance operations, the company decided to close up shop...