Word: permitted
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...polishing that results, however, is not likely to ease the worrisome impact of the changes on federal prisons, already at 153% of capacity. The guidelines permit probation in fewer circumstances, mostly for the first-time offender who has committed a nonviolent crime. They also abolish the parole system for federal prisoners, as Congress has mandated, so that a five-year term will mean just that, minus no more than 54 days a year for good behavior. The commission estimates its tougher penalties will cause the federal prison population to grow by an extra 10% over the next decade. That could...
...their governments to the so-called two-track decision. NATO would proceed toward deployment, beginning in late 1983, of 572 new intermediate- range American missiles in Europe to offset the SS-20s. Five NATO members would accept batteries of Tomahawk ground-launched cruise missiles, and West Germany would also permit the upgrading of the Pershing I to the Pershing II, which has more than twice the range and a much more accurate warhead. At the same time, the U.S. would propose negotiations with the Soviets on a scaled- back deployment of American intermediate-range nuclear forces (INF) in exchange...
Just last week the council convinced the Boston Department of Public Safety to permit temporary seating during the concert, saving itself from underwriting a substantial portion of the allegedly self-supporting event with termbill funds...
...COUNCIL'S good fortune in convincing Boston to permit additional seating for the concert does not change the fact that the council did not take the time to look into city ordinances restricting the concert's size before putting student money on the line. Council members in part justified the investment in the concert by arguing that reduced ticket prices would make the Costello show more affordable than professionally produced concerts. Apparently, however, the council did not do the research necessary to know if that would be the case. Tickets, which SPA Vice Chairman Jeffrey A. Nachmanoff at first said...
Specifically, ICL would permit a cumulative limit of $50,000 on graduate and undergraduate loans, to be paid back at interest levels three percent higher that the Treasury rate. Repayment would begin six months after a student leaves school with payments not to exceed 15 percent of income. There would be no time limit on the length of repayment, but, on the other hand, no portion of the loan would be forgiven, regardless of the student's financial status...