Word: permitted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...painfully constructed underpinnings of Ronald Reagan's fragile 1983 bipartisan budget deal were in danger of falling to the wrecker's ball. The bickering between congressional Democrats and Republicans and between leaders of both parties and the President threatened to defeat a much needed tax increase and permit passage of budget-breaking bills. If those two events occurred, the whole budget process could come tumbling down...
Still another overheated Watt letter, sent to 28 Congressmen two weeks ago, continued to make waves. This one was a direct defense of Watt's plan to permit oil companies to lease up to a billion acres of U.S. coastal waters for drilling. He contended that the specter of offshore oil rigs would be more palatable than explaining "to the mothers and fathers of this land why their sons are fighting on the sands of the Middle East, as might be required if the policies of our critics were pursued...
...this stage, Iran has been receiving help from Israel on the one hand. On the other hand, it has been receiving Soviet-made equipment from countries in the area [such as Syria]. We know full well that the Soviets, as is the case with the U.S., would not permit any country to move military equipment to another country except with their approval. We know this because we had to sign such agreements...
Some analysts had hoped that the Israeli invasion would open up new opportunities to purge Lebanon of foreign intruders and permit a central government to exercise full authority. Last week, however, a telling incident showed that such hopes still seem very optimistic...
...Matassa, who owned the only big recording studio in New Orleans. In the '40s they would deliver records to black hotels that had juke boxes in the rooms. My father would give me all the old 78s. When I was a teen-ager he got me a work permit so I could work clubs. He knew I'd sneak out and not go to school anyway. So rather than have me get a prison record, he'd just say, 'Well, go ahead and do it if you're going to do it.' I went...