Word: permitted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...city rent control ordinances prohibit the removal of housing units-by demolition or conversion to condominiums--without a permit from the rent control board...
...reading from prepared answers, and nimbly ducked the few hard ones. His only gaffe came in a spontaneous reply to a reporter who wondered about the security risk in selling AWACS to a potentially unstable Saudi regime. Reagan snapped: "I have to say that Saudi Arabia we will not permit to be an Iran." When asked the logical follow-up question on how the U.S. would intervene to prevent any domestic uprising against the Riyadh monarchy, Reagan recovered somewhat, putting the issue in a broader context of the Western world's stake in protecting access to Middle East...
...tapes, recovered from Hinckley's Washington hotel room the day he shot the President, consist largely of requests that she permit more calls. Hinckley: "Can I call tomorrow night?" Foster: "That's fine." Hinckley: "Will you be in?" Foster: "Maybe." Hinckley: "Will you talk?" Foster: "Sure." Hinckley: "Well, you just changed your mind...
...statement from the prisoners was inevitable. Earlier, word spread that families of the final six fasting inmates would not permit their men to die. They were following the lead of four other families who intervenedwith Maze authorities to save prisoners lives. Three other strikers decided to abandon the fast on their own. Richard McAuley, a leader of the Sinn Fein, the political arm of the I.R.A., has admitted that under such circumstances the hunger strike was placing "little or no pressure" on the British to yield to the prisoners' demands for political status, though the government of Prime Minister...
...Massachusetts Bar Association has launched an investigation into the conduct of Kenneth Erickson '69, a University real estate lawyer who allegedly misrepresented himself when attending a meeting of Harvard tenants. The Board of Bar Oversees-who could ultimately censure Erickson or ask for his disbarment-will not permit either side to comment publicly while the case is in progress...