Word: permitted
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...plausible idea for reforming Social Security is to reverse the trend toward earlier retirement by gradually raising the retirement age at which full benefits are paid. Advocates note that the same advances in medical science and health care that have been lengthening the lives of the retired would also permit them to keep working for more years. Congress recognized this reality in 1978 when it voted to raise the mandatory retirement age from 65 to 70. If the age for collecting full Social Security benefits were raised to 68 from 65, and the early retirement age to 65 from...
Perhaps the most disturbing aspect of this history is the response of the current Harvard administration to its revelation Rather than permit scholarly inquiry into this period of the University's history. President Derek Bok has rejected all requests to allow qualified scholars decess to the relevant document (many of which came to Professor Diamond from FBI files with massive deletions of obviously important information) How can this he squared with "Ventas...
...case, there is no guarantee that an amendment would actually lead to balanced budgets. The Senate version, for example, would permit deficit spending if 60% of the members of each chamber of Congress voted for it. Besides that, revenues and expenditures are notoriously difficult to estimate, and no one has figured out what the legal situation would be if Congress, by accident or design, voted a set of figures that looked plausible but proved wrong. An amendment, predicts Fred Wertheimer, president of Common Cause, a public interest lobby, "is going to lead to all kinds of games, like two sets...
...allowed to go any further. A rubber stamp needed for validating travel documents had not arrived from Cairo, he explained. At the scruffy northern Sinai town of Rafah, which is now divided by the Israeli-Egyptian border fence, matters were also confused. The system that will permit Arab residents to move freely throughout the city was not yet in effect, so the border was temporarily closed...
...practical matter, neither the auto industry nor business in general is ever likely to do away with inventories entirely. Indeed, some inventory stockpiles are necessary to prevent unexpected supply interruptions from turning into crippling production bottlenecks that can spread havoc throughout the economy. But computers now permit companies to maintain leaner inventories, and this more precise business management should eventually reduce costly overhead charges and increase profits. -By Christopher Byron...