Word: permitted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...passed in New York City in 1916 to limit the size of new skyscrapers that were casting shadows on nearby streets. But now city fathers in several revenue-strapped cities are using zoning regulations as a money-saving way to improve the local urban landscape. City planners will permit developers to put up new buildings only on the condition that they also improve the area around the new structure, at their own expense...
...even the way they are organized. Brokerage houses, banks, insurance companies and even credit-card firms have gone into a kind of mating frenzy, merging left and right and creating new organizations with names like Shearson/American Express and Prudential-Bache. By offering a "supermarket" of financial services, these firms permit an investor to pick up stocks along with auto shocks at his local Sears, to write checks and sell shares through a Merrill Lynch Cash Management Account and to have his Visa transactions recorded along with his stock trading...
...Harvard were to permit the Breakers on play at the stadium, it would help make quality entertainment accessible to a new group of people. Perhaps a child who came to Harvard Stadium for a Beakers game night be inspired to work hard in school so he could someday study here. That would certainly raise Harvard's stature in the com-unity...
...networks' victory was not total, since they wanted total repeal of the restrictions. Also, the FCC must now permit the public to comment on its decision, and a few months could pass before the ruling becomes effective. Said David Boies, a lawyer for CBS: "We're pleased they went as far as they did. We're disappointed they didn't go farther...
...federal funds by replacing grants with grants and loan subsides with equal subsides. These critics point out that Harvard has a policy of insuring that all students talented enough to enter will be admitted regardless of need and offered a package of grants, loans, and self-help sufficient to permit then...to complete their studies. Thus, they argue that Harvard should not abandon this policy and allow students to lose their normal scholarships and subsidized loans simply because they have failed to comply with some unrelated federal law Unless Harvard makes up for the loss of these funds. It will...