Word: permitting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tenure in the White House. It is no mystery why a conventional politician like Bush seems so wan in comparison and why an unfettered challenger like Dukakis remains so cautious in attacking the incumbent. Reagan has molded public attitudes too much in his own cheerful, nostalgic image to permit otherwise...
...plans to retire after next season, the process has not yet been encumbered by the kind of vehement nationalism that blighted previous selections. When Briton John Dexter, a Tony winner for directing, was approached for the job in 1980, Canada's government at first denied him a work permit, and then a public outcry scuttled the idea...
...Minister before the U.N. Security Council, a forum that it had assiduously avoided since Resolution 598 was passed over its objections last July. For another, the shootdown gave relatively moderate political figures a chance to argue the futility of continuing a war that, they insisted, the U.S. would never permit Iraq to lose. That line of reasoning had emerged on previous occasions. Tehran has long complained about U.S. warships' protecting gulf shipping from Iranian attack. Iran has accused Washington, correctly, of providing military intelligence to Iraq and more recently charged, altogether incorrectly, that U.S. troops helped reclaim the Fao peninsula...
...handful of nations that permit the death penalty for offenders who committed crimes before the age of 18. Only three juvenile killers have been executed since the Supreme Court restored the death penalty in 1976, but 29 remain on death row. This term, the court was expected to settle the question of whether the Constitution forbids such executions by considering the case of William Wayne Thompson, 21, an Oklahoma inmate who was 15 when he helped murder his former brother...
...vote came from Justice O'Connor, who ruled narrowly that Oklahoma could not carry out such executions because the state had never specified a minimum age in its death-penalty law. O'Connor stopped short of ruling on whether juvenile executions would be constitutional even in states that expressly permit them. That saved Thompson, but it left the larger issue at a standstill. The court has promised to review the question next year when it considers the cases of two other inmates on death row for crimes committed as juveniles...