Word: allowing
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Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino announced last Thursday that he wants to allow downtown hotel bars to remain open until 4 a.m.--two hours later than the current closing time...
...response to these concerns, however, the mayor's office insisted that he is "adamant" about extending hours only for hotel bars and will not allow residential areas to be affected...
...wanted to expand his store and told the owner of an adjacent store that his sublease would not be renewed, Sharpton's organization stepped in. Sharpton sent the matter to his organization's Buy Black steering committee and announced at a rally that "we will not stand by and allow them to move this brother so that some white interloper can expand his business on 125th Street...
Talk about writing checks you can't cash.... President Clinton is rushing to finalize a trade agreement by the end of November to allow China entry into the World Trade Organization, according to Tuesday?s New York Times. But the fact that any deal would have to pass both houses of Congress has Beijing doubting whether Mr. Clinton can deliver, even if they do manage to strike a deal. And, of course, that's a big "if." The two sides were reportedly close to agreement when Premier Zhu Rongji visited Washington in April, but the fallout from the Chinese nuclear...
...both instances, the issues are thorny. The Florida case weighs the public interest served by allowing police broad power in cracking down on illegal firearms against an individual's constitutional protection from unwarranted search and seizure. Criminal-rights activists contend that a ruling in law enforcement's favor will in esssence allow police to search and detain whomever they please, as long as they say they received a tip that the suspect was carrying a gun. In the other case, the Fourth District of Illinois upheld a 31-year-old federal statute - passed by Congress just two years after...