Word: allowing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...agreed to take him. There Brian remained for the next two years. He says he never did get to study communications. Brian's former coach, Nolan Richardson, now at Arkansas, says all incoming Tulsa students were required to take certain courses and that every attempt was made to allow students to pursue their fields of interest...
...Syria prepared to allow Egypt to be re-admitted to the Arab League, and also to restore diplomatic relations with Egypt...
...usually worked on consumers. The FTC has now joined forces with consumer groups, telephone businesses, securities regulators and banking officials in an organization called Alliance Against Fraud in Telemarketing, which is pressing for legislation to curb telescams. A House bill under consideration would toughen FTC rules on telemarketing and allow state law-enforcement officials, as well as companies and individuals, to sue the crooks in federal courts...
Opening up more federal land to oil exploration would be another way to bolster the energy industry. Earlier this month the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources approved legislation to allow drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Experts believe the field may hold enough oil to supply U.S. needs for about 20 months. But the bill will face fierce opposition from conservationists who argue that drilling could destroy caribou, polar bears and other wildlife. Opposition could be bolstered by last week's Alaskan oil spill...
...that pattern of feints and jabs, the P.L.O. in the Middle East, the Sandinistas in Nicaragua and the Marxist guerrillas in El Salvador have managed to keep Washington's foreign policy off-balance and on the defensive. Only now is the Bush Administration beginning to make moves that may allow it to capture some momentum...