Word: permit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jordan's all-night curfew was lifted last week for a macabre purpose-to permit citizens to witness and draw the moral from the hanging of three Jordanian National Guardsmen and a street vendor...
...Comrades," cried Khrushchev, "successes achieved in agriculture and good prospects for its development permit us to set and solve a task of great nationwide importance: within the next few years to catch up with the U.S. in per capita production of meat, milk and butter...
...Coast United Steelworkers are giving $6,000 to the University of California at Los Angeles for a pilot program for upgrading workers' skills. The most important union move to make the skilled trades more attractive was made by U.A.W.; it decided at its convention a month ago to permit skilled and technical workers to bargain separately for higher pay, a move that many employers welcome since it will permit them to give the bigger pay raises they think the skilled workers deserve. Despite this progress, employers are still unable to tap extensively one huge pool of potential skills...
...establishment of a demilitarized zone would make eventual German reunification possible. Russia will certainly not accept Germany's unification as a member of NATO, but she would more readily permit a neutral unfied Germany...
Dancing on Sunday is more difficult than drinking. In 1935, the legislature amended the law to permit dancing at Sunday weddings, "unless admission is charged," but any other sort of public dancing is illegeal; Saturday night dances end promptly at twelve. This is particularly burdensome when New Year's Eve falls on a Saturday, since all good citizens must greet the New Year by going quietly home...