Word: allowing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Active in neighborhood groups, the Harvard mathematics preceptor is the editor of the Cambridge Civic Journal. Winters wants to amend zoning laws to allow more housing units, invest in long-term projects for a new library and police station, and preserve the system of professional city management and the proportional representation election system...
This week, with Congress having for now killed campaign finance reform, McConnell and other Republicans will get on with other business, such as an amendment to an African trade bill that would allow apparel produced in the Caribbean Basin to enter the U.S. duty free, provided it is assembled from U.S. fabric...
What's happening is a boom in low-carb diets, the weight-loss schemes that allow you to eat all the protein you want--steak, eggs, even fatty bacon--so long as you cut way down on carbohydrates like bread, pasta and soda. The fat-embracing diets, like so many other fads that we shouldn't have invited back, are from the '70s, when high-protein plans like the Scarsdale Diet and Dr. Atkins' Diet Revolution made fondue hip. Now the low-carb diets are back and bigger than ever. Low-carb-diet books will clog the top four spots...
...Hellers' diet follows the basic plan of Atkins'--up with protein, down with carbohydrates--with one important concession: the Hellers allow one "reward meal" each day in which carbs are allowed. Atkins sees this as a betrayal of his science. In fact, Atkins sees most people as part of an intricate conspiracy against the truth of bacon. Twenty-seven years after publishing his trend-setting diet book, you'd think Atkins would be used to the critics by now. But sitting in his art-filled office last week in the Atkins Center for Complementary Medicine, a seven-story alternative-medicine...
Gamma Rays is, as written, a fairly naturalistic piece of theater. The story centers on the experience of Tillie (Anne Jump '01), a high school-aged girl with an unpleasant and destructive home life and the events and beliefs which allow her to transcend...