Word: permitted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...million in proposed financial aid, more than two-thirds will go to bail out three financially strapped countries: Jamaica, El Salvador, and Costa Rica. This money will merely permit these countries to handle their huge debt burdens for the rest of the year--not to initiate any new development program...
...state panel has the authority to overrule the Cambridge building commissioner's recent denial of a permit to allow the Middlesex County sheriff to house prisoners in the jail. The commissioner called the jail a fire hazard because it lacks a sprinkler system...
...destroyed Sadat and foreclosed hopes of peace. The Israelis, spoiling for revenge, showed no inclination to spare the army. Convinced that Israel had created the crisis by launching an attack well after the cease-fire so as to destroy the Third Army, Kissinger told Dinitz: "You will not be permitted to destroy this army. You are destroying the possibility for negotiations." To Cairo he proposed direct negotiations between Israel and Egypt. To Israel he delivered what amounted to an ultimatum: Unless the Cabinet agreed within nine hours to permit a convoy to deliver food and water to the army...
...reporter before, and several times during, the rally, a nuclear weapons freeze at current levels would solidify the imbalance of power between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. The Soviets would be unlikely to honor such an agreement, as demonstrated by their violation of chemical warfare accords and refused to permit accurate verification of earlier nuclear weapons treaties. Those who demonstrated feel that only by demonstrating resolve never to be overtaken by the Soviet Union in nuclear arms will the West ever convince the Soviets to participate in meaningful arms negotiations. The current surge of concern over the danger of nuclear...
...make the most of the camera's improved technology. The motor drive attaches to the bottom of the camera, providing a low center of gravity that offsets the weight of a projecting lens. In addition, the comfortable hand grip is constructed in such a way as to permit stable one-hand operation...