Word: permitting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...constitutions of Eastern Europe bestow supreme power on the Communist Party. While charters from Bulgaria to Poland ring with declarations of human and civil rights, they all contain loopholes that permit governments to set such rights aside should the party so require. Thus many guarantees -- like the widely promised right to complain about government misdeeds without fear of retribution -- are honored mainly in the breach, and supposedly independent courts almost never hand down rulings the party does not like...
...framers of the Constitution could not possibly have foreseen the America of the late 20th century, with its enormous national Government, its multinational corporations, its crime, computer technology, genetic engineering, pollution, mass media, nuclear weapons and the rest. Madison did not permit the notes that he made during the Constitutional Convention to be published until after his death, believing that the Constitution must stand alone, that the specific thoughts of individual framers were essentially irrelevant and might even be mischievous in later times...
...David Austern, director of education at the Association of Trial Lawyers of America. "It says that potential victims can use deadly force whenever they want." New York City officials hastened to reject that view. "Some will take this as a signal that vigilantes are acceptable, but we will not permit that," said Mayor Ed Koch. Black Police Commissioner Benjamin Ward grimly added, "No one has a license to go out and hunt anyone -- black, green, yellow or whatever...
...chain of events that brought the Reagan Administration to the current impasse began in early 1986. At that time Washington pressured Islamabad to permit the Afghan guerrillas in Pakistan's border province to receive Stinger antiaircraft missiles from the U.S. Pakistani President Mohammad Zia ul-Haq reluctantly went along, despite a warning from the Soviet Union that Pakistan would pay a high price. By last November, mujahedin equipped with Stingers were shooting down an average of one Soviet or Afghan aircraft a day. Last week, according to Radio Kabul, the rebels struck again, downing an Afghan transport plane and reportedly...
...immigration law provides tough penalties for employers who fail to make sure that every one of their alien workers possesses a temporary resident permit. To obtain that status, alien farm laborers must prove that they worked in U.S. agriculture for at least 90 days in each of the past three years, or in just one year if they harvested perishable crops. Workers are staying away right now because they fear getting caught without the permit, thus jeopardizing their chances for permanent residence and eventual U.S. citizenship. Many Mexicans are still struggling with their applications for permits, which in many cases...