Word: permitted
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...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 schools have strict non-discrimination policies for encamps recruiting, which the Army says cannot follow because it excludes homosexuals and many disabled people from recruitment drives...
Even if a state's citizens and leaders decided that it was fine to cut costs by giving inmates gruel and just enough space to brood lying down, the federal judiciary's notions of decency would no longer permit them to do so. During the past ten years, a conservative Supreme Court affirmed, and then cautiously circumscribed, the range of prison conditions deemed unconstitutional, and the discretion of lower federal judges to order remedies. In its 1976 decision in the Texas case Estelle vs. Gamble, and even more powerfully two years later in Hutto vs. Finney, a case involving sickeningly...
...Israel during the 1967 Six-Day War. Moreover, Hussein had to accept about 2,000 P.L.O. guerrillas in order to sustain his hopes of becoming the leading spokesman for the moderate Arab states. Hussein is confident that he has enough control of the restive factions of his country to permit the return of the guerrillas, who will be housed with their families...
...gathering at the royal court in Amman, when some 160 prominent professional and religious leaders pelted King Hussein with questions about why Jordan had not broken relations with the U.S. over the Israeli invasion of Lebanon. They went so far as to ask why Jordan was not willing to permit democratic institutions to function. The King handled his interrogators skillfully. To identify with, if not coopt, Palestinian rage over events in Lebanon, the King called for the creation of a People's Army, a sort of militia of all Jordanians, both men and women, trained to defend the country...
There seems to be growing confidence in the business and financial communities that inflation can be held to about 6% during the next year, and perhaps even reduced below that. Such an accomplishment would permit interest rates to continue declining, thus helping to revive industrial output. Reason: lenders would no longer feel that they had to demand high rates to guard against having their returns eaten up by renewed price boosts. In fact, the drop in inflation seems to have been one reason for the interest-rate slashes that have already occurred...