Word: permitting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...participate in the decision.) In a biting opinion, Rehnquist argued that the legislative history of Title VII shows that "Congress meant precisely what it said." Congressional proponents of the act argued "tirelessly" during 83 days of debate that Title VII would be used neither to require nor permit quotas. Burger said that he would side with the majority if he were a Congressman, but that as a judge he had no business joining in "totally rewriting a crucial part" of the law. Said he: "Congress expressly prohibited the discrimination against Brian Weber the court approves...
...planners have discarded as all but unworkable various schemes to form a kind of consumers' cartel to negotiate with OPEC, or to put a ceiling on the price the seven countries would permit corporations to pay for oil on the Rotterdam "spot" market (users bid there for supplies not tied up under long-term contracts, and prices have shot as high as $40 per bbl.). French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing, speaking on behalf of the European Community, outlined a plan to freeze European oil imports at last year's level and to "dissuade companies from lending themselves to transactions...
Says George Sullivan, national organizer for the Fraternal Association of Steel Haulers (FASH): "We have to live with innumerable rules and regulations that take up all your time. You have to get 197 different permits if you drive in 48 states. You have to buy a permit to buy fuel in a state and then tell them how many miles you drive and send them back money for driving through. When the truckers are making money, they can put up with all that. But when they're not making money, they get very hostile...
What emerged from the latest testimony and the hundreds of pages of declassified documents released by Kennedy is a disheartening story. Almost every time the old Atomic Energy Commission was asked by the military to permit troops closer to ground zero or increase their radiation exposure, the AEC ignored its own safety standards and acquiesced. Items...
David Sullivan, a Cambridge tenant organizer and City Council candidate who drafted the bill said. "Under state law, I don't think you can regulate the use (of apartments)-you can't say no condominiums." Instead, the proposal would require a city permit before allowing renovations to convert to condominiums or institutional...