Word: permitted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Before the first fire, Bell applied for a permit from the city's Rent Control Board to remove the units from the market and upgrade them to luxury condominiums. Sullivan argued that the fires might have made the board more likely to grant the removal, because the units had become unoccupiable...
...megawatts, nearly twice the whole state's present electric-power consumption. The further development of new geothermal sources would be spurred if engineers could design a cable to span the 26-mile, 7,000-ft.-deep Alenuihaha Channel between Hawaii and the other islands to permit the export of electricity...
...unrelated incident at the Law School, the U.S. Army threatened Harvard with a loss of Pentagon research contracts because the Law School does not permit Army recruiting. Harvard joined five other universities in the military's dog house. All six school's have strict non-discrimination policies for oncampus recruiting, which the Army says cannot follow because it excludes homosexuals and many disabled people from recruitment drives...
...plans for it. The same video console can be used for many services, from remote-control banking to electronic mail to fingertip shopping. The French are experimenting with just about every conceivable application. In a test program in three suburbs of Paris, 2,500 terminals have been installed that permit people to check airline schedules or place orders with mail-order catalogues using the computer...
Thirty farming villages between Bordeaux and Toulouse have terminals that dispense data about social security rights, building permit procedures and agricultural laws. Bank managers at Crédit Agricole, a financial institution specializing in agricultural loans, can use 24 terminals in Brittany to look at the names, addresses and accounts of all their clients. In Grenoble and Nantes, users can tap two municipal terminals to summon information about military service, student fellowships and job openings. In Paris, 120 hotels offer their guests 4,500 pages of electronic information, ranging from gastronomic advice to the latest stock market quotes. Next year...