Word: disallowance
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...Federal Communications Commission has until Jan. 15 to disallow last week's auction and all future proceedings. There are 17 petitions now before the FCC, objecting to the auction mostly on grounds that selling transponders to the highest bidders is "unjustly discriminatory" and unduly inflates the prices. If the commission should agree, RCA is prepared to assign the transponders on a first-come first-served basis. They also have several to spare: Satcom IV carries 24 transponders, of which eight were assigned three years ago, two are "pre-emptable" (meaning, essentially, that they serve as backups) and seven...
...therefore open legions of scientists, bureaucrats and others to prosecution. The more practical converse of his view is that citizens who withhold taxes, trespass on reactor sites or otherwise resist nuclear power are entitled to present juries with the reasons for their civil disobedience--a line of defense judges disallow...
Reincarnation is an existing philosophy. It is felt to be valid by millions of people around the world and in various cultures, currently and historically. To disallow this subject in college is in itself primitive and "blatant nonsense...
...proposals would add more students to the CRR, establish an appeals board for committee decisions, and disallow hearsay evidence from CRR hearings...
...meeting, the club's election committee had decided to allow 12 members of the club, who had to attend mandatory meetings at the Fox and Owl clubs while the Republican Club elections were held, to vote by absentee ballots. But at the actual election meeting club members voted to disallow the ballots...