Word: permitted
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Even though she had substantial assets of her own (her net worth at the time was about $500,000), the banks, she says, would not give her a loan unless her husband co-signed it. The FEC, of course, would not permit Zaccaro to do that, since he was one of the family members she was trying to repay. The only option, she says, was to put some of her property on the block. "We've got to sell fast," she told her husband, alluding to her half-ownership of one building and a half-interest in a mortgage...
Reagan began the next morning with an "ecumenical prayer breakfast," attended by 17,000 Christian laymen and church leaders, most of them evangelicals. To the delight of his audience, the President delivered his strongest attack ever on opponents of a proposed constitutional amendment that would permit voluntary school prayer. Claiming that the amendment's passage has been blocked by its critics "in the name of tolerance," Reagan asked, "Isn't the real truth that they are intolerant of religion? They refuse to tolerate its importance in our lives." In a debatable assertion that went well beyond the issue...
...follow the Kremlin's foreign policy line. When Honecker traveled to Bucharest last week to attend ceremonies marking the 40th anniversary of Rumanian independence, President Nicolae Ceauşescu presented him with the Star of the Socialist Republic of Rumania, first class. Ceauşescu has refused to permit Soviet troops to be stationed on Rumanian soil and has opted out of Warsaw Pact plans to counter the new NATO weapons by installing Soviet missiles in Eastern Europe. The Rumanian leader told the Brazilian daily Jornal do Brasil last week that his country "is determined not to accept...
...Miss to names, the problem could be solved by referring to her as Miss Ferraro. But the candidate, who is the mother of three children, does not feel happy with this appellation and has asked to be called Ms. or Mrs. Ferraro. Because the Times does not permit the use of Ms. in its columns, it is left with no choice but to call her Mrs. Last week William Safire, who ruminates on the origins and proper use of words in his Times column "On Language," took his paper to task. Call her Miss Ferraro, Mrs. Zaccaro or Mrs. Ferraro...
...being overshadowed by symbolic strutting. The President and his party colleagues, authors of the biggest deficits in U.S. history, are touting a constitutional amendment requiring a balanced budget. Reagan recently revived the proposal after a two-year lapse, and a group of Republicans last week challenged the Democrats to permit the full House to vote on the amendment. The sponsors, however, were utterly at a loss to explain how the amendment would actually produce a no-deficit budget next year (Reagan's own proposals project a $180.4 billion deficit for 1985), except by instilling a somewhat mystical "discipline...