Word: permitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...committee concluded: "There is not enough evidence available to permit a rigid stand on what the relationship is between nutrition, particularly the fat content of the diet, and atherosclerosis." Therefore it did not recommend "drastic dietary changes, specifically in the quantity or type of fat in the diet of the general population." Instead, the committee pleaded for prompt, thorough and uncompromising research to fix the facts. But it made a notable concession to the foes of fats, and especially saturated fats, by conceding that in any well-balanced diet for general good health, the fat content should be sufficient only...
...objects. Beneath hill and plain lay buried treasure-the vases, statues and coins that the energetic Etruscans had placed in the tombs 25 centuries ago. This was part of the "national patrimony," said the government, and no one would be allowed to dig up or sell them without government permit...
...entering and purchasers leaving the place. Last week officers raided No. 77 and confiscated what they called the "greatest hoard of looted archaeological treasures ever found in Italy." In the old palace, crowded with pressed butterflies and Victorian lamps, they found 15,000 antique items without a single legal permit, including nine showcases stacked with Etruscan vases, cups, coins, marble statuary. Four thousand pieces were rated "important," some priceless...
...predictable, surgeons use them to relax muscles by blocking the transmission of impulses from nerves, but stopping well short of the Indians' desired end point-where the muscles of breathing are denied signals from the brain's respiratory center, causing death. In surgery curare-like compounds permit the use of lighter anesthetic doses. They are especially valuable in abdominal operations because they cut down the activity of muscles around the gut. They facilitate the passing of a tube through the windpipe for artificial respiration. They are useful in some nervous disorders, in controlling convulsions from shock treatments...
...properties is up next March, he has shown little hurry to sell, has so far disposed of only two coal mines. If sales on "reasonable terms" cannot be made in time (and no German firm would interfere in Krupp's personal problem by bidding on the properties), regulations permit Krupp one-year extensions. Alfried Krupp would rather not take advantage of this temporary escape clause; instead, he is hoping that the Allies will annul the sales agreement and leave Krupp with all its empire. For three years, General Manager Beitz, who chafes at Alfried's moderate approach...