Word: permitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...routine order, it dropped anchor in Port Said to await permission to pass through the canal. Far from being granted permission, Captain Koutales was not even allowed ashore to ask for it. Almost two weeks later the shipping company's local agent managed to get the required permit, but it was canceled almost immediately. The agent was told that he could no longer act for the ship in any capacity, and the Panaghia was ordered to a remote section of the harbor, where an Egyptian patrol launch was set to watch it night and day. Meanwhile, Captain Koutales...
Britain and France wanted the carrying of slaves by sea to be labeled "an act of piracy"1-a move that would permit search and seizure of suspected slave ships. Most directly affected by this proposal was Saudi Arabia, which, with the small-fry nations around it on the Arabian Peninsula, constitutes the only area of the world where slavery survives in its classic form. To meet the demand of oil-rich Saudis, who are prepared to pay up to $1,000 for a likely young Arab girl, traders annually import some 30,000 slaves from
...from 63? to 80? a Ib. Colombia's mild coffee, which customarily commands 4^ or 5^ more than Brazil's standard grades, now brings a fat 20? differential. And the rain damage seems to have been vastly overstated. The nearly harvested crop, Colombians now say privately, will permit export of at least 6,200,000 bags, worth up to $650 million to Colombia's coffeegrowers...
Only at the end did Nixon permit himself a reference to that which weighed heaviest on him. "The skill of the fine doctors who are attending my father," he said, "could not possibly have equaled the lift which he has received from the events for which you were responsible yesterday. For that we thank you. Goodbye and good luck...
...live up to its social responsibilities, they argue, businessmen will have to devote to politics the inventiveness and drive that they lavish full-time on their jobs. Says U.S. Chamber of Commerce President John S. Coleman: "We must have a point of view−a philosophy that will permit us, instead of resisting change, to play a creative role in controlling and directing...