Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...plant has won a low-power testing license, but cannot run commercially until its emergency plans for surrounding communities in New Hampshire and Massachusetts are approved...
...time, Watson said, "We have to watch the mores of our students. I do not want to see Harvard play a leading role in relaxing the moral code of college youth. The College must follow the customs of the time and the community. We cannot have rules more liberal than a standard generally accepted by the American public...
Finding an acceptable solution, however, is no simple task, whether or not it is a long-range one. "Ideally we would like to have [space], but do you keep on building? We are confined, you cannot expand forever," Feng says...
...reform, is now viewed as an autocratic and imperious obstacle to it. It must have been particularly galling that many of the demonstrators' abusive slogans echoed his own words. WHO SAYS YOU CAN'T RETIRE? read one sign in the square, reflecting Deng's frequent statement that he cannot step down because the country needs...
Half a world away, Britain watched the strife in China with acute concern. Nonetheless, the government of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher intends to uphold its pledge to return Hong Kong to Chinese rule. "We cannot back away from the 1984 agreement," said a senior British diplomat. "We have signed it, and we are committed to it." Said another high official: "Once the situation settles down in China, it could be for the better. If the reformers do come out on top, that would be more promising for Hong Kong's future." By week's end, however, the liberal reformers appeared...