Word: permitted
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...playwright Harold Pinter presented a petition in Rushdie's behalf at No. 10 Downing Street. Author Anthony Burgess, writing in the newspaper the Independent, stated the Western position precisely: "What a secular society thinks of the Prophet Muhammad is its own affair, and reason, apart from law, does not permit aggressive interference of the kind that has brought shame and death to Islamabad," where the rioting took several lives. "If Muslims want to attack the Christian or humanistic vision of Islam contained in our literature," Burgess observed, "they will find more vicious travesties than Mr. Rushdie...
...ruling found that Rickard had renovated and combined several apartments at 52-54 Fairmont St.--eliminating three rent-controlled apartments--without filing for a removal permit...
...rent control board hearing ruled in January that Rickard had knowingly violated the city's removal permit ordinance, enacted in 1979 to keep landlords from illegally removing apartments from rent control or converting them to condominiums--diminishing the city's stock of rent-controlled housing...
...there are two changes which probably will come out of the Webster case. The first will allow states to forbid publicly funded clinics to offer abortion as an alternative in counseling. The second will permit laws forbidding public facilities to perform abortions, even if the woman is paying for it herself. In several states, including Missouri, most abortions are currently performed at public hospitals...
...most influential player. But it is important that we not permit the perception to develop that we can deliver peace, that we can deliver Israeli concessions. If there is going to be lasting peace, it will be the result of direct negotiations between the parties, not something mandated or delivered by anybody from the outside, including the U.S. We must do whatever we can to enhance the prospect of the parties negotiating the problem out among themselves. It is not the role of the U.S. to pressure Israel. At the same time, it is in Israel's interest to resolve...