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Word: permitted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Opponents of the garage charge that in granting The Athenaeum Group a permit for the development, the city violated a federal freeze on new parking spaces in Cambridge and have filed a suit against both city and developers. If successful, their suit could make illegal every parking facility built in the city since...

Author: By Matthew M. Hoffman, | Title: Councillors: Healy Sifting Information | 11/22/1988 | See Source »

...hydraulic system that operates the governor failed, and the turbine went into a runaway state, approaching dangerous speeds before it could be shut off with manual controls. Later in the spring, when rainfall was light, the plant was found to be in violation of the terms of its permit, which requires a certain minimum flow through the gorge. So much water was used in running the plant that the river itself was "dewatered," as one official put it, threatening the survival of fish. The plant's operation had to be halted until a new computer and automatic flow controls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Williams River Electric: Hydroelectric Power Tailored For a Country Stream | 11/7/1988 | See Source »

Noble said that the removal permit ordinance imposes three criteria in judging applications to take apartments off of rent control of move them: the "aggravation" removal would cause to the rental housing stocks, the hardship to the tenants, and the benefit to the tenants...

Author: By Emily Mieras, | Title: Judge's Ruling May Crimp MIT Project | 11/1/1988 | See Source »

Ballestrero had initially agreed to an extraordinary series of scientific tests on the shroud in 1978, but refused to permit carbon 14 testing, which was crucial to determining the fabric's age. Handkerchief-size samples needed to be cut out, which, to Ballestrero, was unthinkable for such a revered historical item. After technical improvements made it possible to use samples the size of postage stamps, however, the Cardinal allowed cuttings to be taken last April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Debunking The Shroud of Turin | 10/24/1988 | See Source »

...bill, which passed through the Senate by an 87-3 vote, would create the oft-discussed cabinet-level position of drug "czar." It would also allow the death penalty against drug "kingpins," stregnthen penalties for both the use and sale of illicit drugs, and permit random testing for transportation and nuclear-industry workers...

Author: By Andrew J. Bates, | Title: Policy, Not Pandering | 10/19/1988 | See Source »

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