Word: permit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Brachman substituted a motion to permit the President to appoint a special NSA director from outside the Council. George Pontikes '59 supported this, saying, "If the President is empowered to go among the masses, he will." Kolodny also gave his support, "It's time we did something radical," he suggested...
Most of the Indians were afraid that the withdrawal and relocation programs would somehow foreshadow the end of tribal culture (and, some said darkly, permit the white man to grab Indian lands). Rather than take Indians from the reservations (30% return, mostly because of loneliness), the U.S. should spend more money on industrial and agricultural development of reservation land. Snorted Coeur d'Alene Tribesman Joseph Garry, who is president of the National Congress of American Indians and a Democratic member of the Idaho House of Representatives: "As for the bureau giving us 'freedom,' we are free from...
...serious trouble. Both have been hard hit by rising costs, declining revenues, and the heavy inroads of competition from trucks, airplanes and buses. In addition to competing with "subsidized" forms of transportation, said Symes and Perlman, their roads have suffered from "long delayed and inadequate rate increases, refusal to permit abandoning of unprofitable and unpatronized trains and facilities, inadequate payment for carrying mail, discriminatory excise taxes, excessive state and local taxes, unfair assessments for highway crossings, and other artificial burdens...
...Felix Fuld, to the first Board of Trustees which said, in part, "... The primary purpose of the pursuit of advanced learning and exploration in fields of pure science and high scholarship to the utmost degree that the facilities of the institution and the ability of the faculty and students permit...
...Institute enjoys a reputation comparable to that of the School of Mathematics--to modern political history. In between, the Institute admits that there are many "bizarre lacunae," but nevertheless, the historical method provides both a unifying basis and a criterion for possible expansion in coming years if finances permit...