Word: permitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...while production increased 60%. With far fewer economic strains to contend with, Switzerland has held to a 5% rise. Britain has had a 16% rise in that time, now hopes its "hard pound" policy, expressed in courageously raising the discount rate from 5% to 7%, will finally check inflation, permit Britain to build up the gold and dollar reserves it needs to act as banker for the sterling area. In Asia, Japan has creditably held its inflation since 1953 to 9%, and recently the Bank of Japan, the government's central bank, further tightened up on money by raising...
Because the Catalan churches lay in a backward area, they remained almost unchanged through the centuries, were not rebuilt in later styles. In recent decades most of the frescoes and painted wood altar fronts have been moved into museums at Vich and Barcelona to stop further deterioration and to permit careful studies by art scholars. The best that is left of this all but forgotten chapter from the past has now been reproduced in oversized format (18 in. by 13 in.) in Spain, Romanesque Paintings, published by the New York Graphic Society ($16.50) as part of the UNESCO World...
...Board has the power to suspend, revoke, or cancel any license it issues, but it cannot fine or imprison violators. Although state law also provides for fines or imprisonment for sale of liquor to minors, the present case was concerned only with the permit violations...
...Britain's busiest married careerists. Elizabeth and Philip are often forced to pursue their duties separately, but at the start of each busy day, the door between their adjoining bedrooms at the palace is invariably open to permit them to chat while dressing. Even on the most crowded days they try to keep the time between 5 and 6:30 each evening free for a family romp with seven-year-old Anne (and Prince Charles when he is not at school); the rare evenings they can spend alone together are frequently devoted to television and an exchange of mocking...
Occasion for the argument: the Church Meeting of the state Lutheran church of Sweden, considering a proposal to permit women ministers. Two years ago the Swedish Parliament recommended ordination of women (at the time, one diehard stormed that he would never confess* to a female because women were notoriously unable to hold their tongues...