Word: permitted
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...survey also disclosed that about 75% of the schools polled still have policies that permit such punishment. Ten percent of the reported cases of pupils being struck occurred despite regulations prohibiting physical punishment. Striking was most common in the public schools, the early primary grades and in the Southern states, and was least frequent in suburban schools. A child is four times more likely to be hit by a male teacher than by a woman. Defending their heavy-handed discipline, 63% of the teachers said that they favored school-board policies permitting them to strike youngsters anywhere except...
...relief efforts are to have any impact on Biafran starvation, food must be transported by land from the rest of Nigeria, because of the inadequacy of airport facilities in what remains of Biafra. The Nigerian Government would surely be responsible for Biafran starvation if she refused to permit the transportation of the badly needed food. Fortunately this is not the case. The same international agencies have affirmed the readiness of the Nigerian Government to open up land corridors to allow the food to reach Biafra. These same international agencies further state that the major obstacle at the moment...
...Czechoslovak Presidium has vowed to fight down the line for liberal reform and independence in the facedown with the eleven-member Politburo. Dubček agreed to take the entire Presidium with him, including the conservatives among whom the Russians hope to find some allies. But he planned to permit only the progressives to make formal statements at the meeting...
...council may possible consider some "unfinished business" on its agenda, including a proposed amendment to the local zoning laws that would permit the construction of Cambridge Plaza, a high-rise office and apartment complex near the site of the future Kennedy Memorial Library...
Above all, the reformist leadership has so far refused to permit the emergence of a genuine opposition party to the Communists. A political organization of liberal nonCommunists, K.A.N., has already signed up more than 20,000 members but takes care to describe it self as a club rather than a party. K.A.N.'s rallies at times take place despite police bans, but the club's sober leaders know that if they overstep the bounds, they may force the government to crack down...