Word: permitted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...needs fresh cash because the wave of near defaults has left it almost broke. "The agency's financial position is very precarious," said Rimmer de Vries, chief international economist for Morgan Guaranty Trust. "It is already lending more than its resources permit...
...just revived a gift out of the blue: $204,000 from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, which she can spend any way she likes. Forsberg was one of the framers of the plan to call for a nuclear arms freeze. Says she: "The award will permit me to be more productive in the various aspects of work for peace that...
MITI has had more success with dampening competition in declining industries. In many cases, the government has been willing to bend its antitrust laws to permit cooperation among companies. When the shipbuilding business started to sag in the 1970s, MITI allowed the firms to form a cartel that would share orders. In that way, the decline was evenly distributed. The strategy gave the companies time to diversify, while gradually reducing their production. MITI is now encouraging the formation of similar cartels in the paper, petrochemical and aluminum industries...
Some news watchers might have felt betrayed by the remarks of Reynolds' friends, believing that objective reporters shouldn't permit themselves to blur the line between fact-telling and story-portraying, especially when the subject of the story is a close friend. But we should consider the circumstances. What it came down to was a bunch of close friends doing what came naturally--recalling the best moments of their departed colleague's career, trying to be journalists and humans at the same time, pursuits not yet mutually exclusive, Said Reynolds' co-anchor Peter Jennings. "What we did today was what...
...parts are sought, the Pentagon's buyers often deem the competition "adequate" even if the only "bidders" are the prime contractor and one of its subcontractors, whose business often depends upon remaining on good terms with the larger company. Furthermore, the report contends, Pentagon buyers are reluctant to permit new sources of parts from breaking into the circle of approved suppliers...