Word: permitted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...those who kill during a drug-related crime, the legislation contains legal procedures designed to permit use of the federal death penalty...
...Calcutta. Roads and railways were cut, and even ferryboats stopped running, because their terminals were flooded. At one point, only a handful of helicopters connected the capital with the rest of the country. By week's end, as the floodwaters started to recede, the Dhaka airport was reopened to permit the arrival of relief supplies...
Dukakis has not put a price tag on his educational proposals or stated in detail how he would pay for them. Some of his ideas, moreover, simply do not stand up. Few businesses are likely to permit capable workers to leave their jobs in mid-career for three- to five-year teaching sabbaticals. Dukakis' plan to expand the so-called Boston Compacts and Genesis Programs -- in which wealthy individuals and businesses seek to motivate high schoolers by promising a job or college scholarship to each graduate -- is doomed to failure in areas lacking either a surplus of good jobs...
...rhetoric notwithstanding, neither Bush nor Dukakis has made the conceptual breakthrough that would permit the U.S. to fashion the school system it deserves. While looking through different lenses, both seem to view federal education spending as a frilly, bloated social program rather than as a vital national-security program at least equal in priority to maintaining strong armed forces. During the Reagan years, despite growing concern about huge deficits, the largest peacetime military buildup in the nation's history boosted spending for defense 37% in inflation-adjusted dollars to annual levels of nearly $300 billion. Federal outlays for elementary...
Meantime, government riot police stood ready to open a mine in the Silesian town of Jastrzebie in order to permit safety crews to combat an underground fire and relieve accumulations of methane gas. After vowing to keep the troops from entering, several hundred militant strikers backed down...