Word: permitted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...remove the building's units from the rental market to do the renovations. Arguing before a rent board hearing examiner last week, the members claimed that although tenants at the Craigie Arms apartments reached an agreement with the University to vacate their units, granting Harvard the necessary removal permit would increase the strain on the city's already tight housing market...
...same devices that give the Harrier its ability to take off vertically also permit it to outmaneuver conventional aircraft by using a technique known as "viffing" (from Vector in Forward Flight). By adjusting his exhaust nozzles to reverse the thrust, the pilot can cause his plane to decelerate rapidly and veer to the side. "You want to smash through the canopy, but the harness tightens over your shoulders, holds you down at the waist. You think you are stopping at 12,000 ft.," wrote British Journalist John Edwards, who was given a demonstration ride in a Harrier last week...
...last week: three major ones by Democratic leaders headed by Speaker Tip O'Neill, Republican leaders and a bipartisan coalition of moderates; one by staunch conservatives, two competing ones by liberals and one by the 18-member Black Caucus. In addition, floor rules will permit votes on 68 separate amendments. House Republican leaders produced a budget that looks very much like the Senate document but, somehow, projects $ 15 billion less spending. How did they accomplish that feat? An aide to Senate Republican chiefs had a simple answer: "They lie." Retorted an aide to the House G.O.R leaders: "Our numbers...
...chair, ruled that Walker's declaration of national interest was invalid on the ground that farm prices, not Britain's budget contribution, were at issue. De Keersmaecker was supported by France and Italy. French Farm Minister Edith Cresson said that the Luxembourg compromise "does not permit a member nation to paralyze the normal functioning of the Community." She, along with the West Germans and others, insisted that the right of veto remain intact...
...persistent, Director, that it won't even be difficult to skirt the spirit of the Constitution once the public is sufficiently whipped into a "homosexual scare." No one will argue that Constitutional rights are absolute, on our side is the old adage that freedom of speech doesn't permit a scream of fire in a crowded theatre. "Negative social pressures" may well prove effective in covertly abridging gays civil rights. While supporting freedom of speech for gays, we will work hard to harass anyone who listens to gays' public speeches, while supporting freedom of the press for gay publications...