Word: permitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...permit greater earnings after retirement without loss of benefits, e.g., to exempt the first $1,000 of a beneficiary's annual earnings under the retirement test, which now cuts off payments for any month in which the retired person earns more than...
...erase "inequity," its practical purpose is to provide an incentive for investment in business, and, consequently, to encourage a faster growth of the economy. Another "incentive" revision agreed upon by the committee's and the Treasury Department's experts and ready for approval: a proposal to permit business to make big early deductions for depreciation of new plants and equipment...
...more selected counties in the U.S. (TIME. Nov. 23). Last week Illinois health officials said that the Illinois counties so favored might have to beg off. Director Roland R. Cross of the Illinois Department of Health, acting on the recommendations of a technical advisory committee, refused to permit the trials "until further proof of the safety and effectiveness of the vaccine has been received...
...Secondary boycotts (using economic pressure against one employer to win a dispute with another) are "indefensible." But the law's sweeping ban on secondary boycotts should be amended to permit union action against 1) an employer who is performing farmed-out work for a struck employer, and 2) any employer on a construction site where another employer with a contract on the same site is struck. Also, the National Labor Relations Board should merely be permitted, not required, to seek an injunction in secondary-boycott cases. ¶ The law's provisions against union busting should be strengthened...
Most optical instruments use lenses, mirrors or prisms to coax rays of light. This system works all right for microscopes and telescopes but not for the long, flexible probes (gastroscopes and broncho-scopes) that physicians use for peering into human stomachs and lungs. To permit the peerer to see around irregular curves, the instruments have to be packed with many small lenses, which absorb a lot of the light. Unless the field of vision is very small, the image is badly distorted before it reaches the eyepiece...