Word: permit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spring term will have two fewer class days. Patriots Day will be dropped as a holiday, if state laws permit, and one day will be taken from the spring reading period. In the event that the state demands the observance of Patriots Day, an additional day will be removed from the reading period...
...Hatoyama pushed through Japan's Lower House, by a vote of 239 to 139, a bill establishing an agency to prepare changes in the constitution along some recommended lines: ¶ Abandonment of MacArthur's proud clause proscribing war (intended to make Japan the "Switzerland of Asia") to permit Japanese rearming, with safeguards against return of the old military clique. ¶ An upgrading of the Emperor from the purely honorary position ("symbol of the state") he now holds to a position somewhere below the divinity ("sacred and inviolable") he once enjoyed. ¶ A partial return to appointment rather than...
Watching its North African territories slip away. France at long last read its lesson. Demanding powers to establish local government and to give natives equal voting rights in its other colonies in "Black Africa," the Mollet government declared: "We must not permit ourselves to be outstripped and dominated by events, to yield subsequently to demands when they express themselves in violent terms." By an amazing 477 to 99, the Assembly gave the government the powers it had requested. For good measure, the government itself belatedly approved reforms for Algeria. Sample: 50-50 shares for Algerian sharecroppers (to whom heretofore landlords...
Needless to say, we do not intend to permit specific Soviet moves to control our activities...
...problems if the company uses competent technicians who carefully and repeatedly explain what they are doing, and include in any job evaluation such human factors as fatigue and boredom. An atmosphere of good labor relations is also a big help; although the International Union of Electrical Workers refused to permit Westinghouse's time study, it raised no objection to a similar study at G.E. Where a union suspects that the time study is being used by management to cut pay or fire workers, the stopwatch will always make trouble. But properly used, the time study is a tool that...