Word: passed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...city council had exceeded its authority," William J. Walsh, an attorney for Harlow Properties, one of the city's largest condominium developers, said. "He refused to hear the case at that time, saying that we didn't have standing, but he urged my client to go ahead and pass papers on and that if a permit is denied to bring the case back...
...union is happy with the department's decision to eliminate the biannual physical stress test, which the police felt increased insecurity over their jobs (if an officer didn't pass the test he was removed from the force). "I think it did something for the morale of the police department and the morale of the people in the health services," Chafin says. Responding to union complaints of three years ago, the department has also improved the quality of the equipment officers use. Chafin claims the new emergency equipment and a new fleet of police cruisers with alley lights and better...
Students with language disabilities can get waivers, granted by the Administrative Board. But for the hundreds who just hate languages or simply have trouble with languages, Dinklage says, "They have no disability but lower aptitude and they hate languages and have to put in extra effort to pass the courses. For them it represents a painful diversion. That's just too bad--there's a language requirement...
...honesty sometimes compliments, but more often hurts us. Each person has to accept the verdict of the children, and know that they are right. For example, a friend of ours is known to the children as "big nose." They refer to him in the most casual manner, "Big nose, pass the butter," or "Thank you for the dolly, big nose!" Although he doesn't show it, I think secretly inside he is hurt by it. The adults, of course, tactfully call him "abundant nose," and even young Thomas just out of high school has the courtesy to call him simply...
...forget sometime in the wee hours of September 26, are Lawrence Sherman, candidate for the U.S. Labor Party, and Luis Castro, the Socialist Workers Party candidate. As the Boston Globe's Sunday magazine reported in an unusual flash of insight, "It is doubtful what they envision could come to pass without a revolution in thought." Well...