Word: permitting
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...neighboring news stand and Weiner's shop had a friendly relationship until the shed was sold to Indelicato. Weiner said there were "no problems" with the shack, even when the stand overstepped its permit and began to sell magazines. But now that the shack, equipped with heating, electricity and its own phone line, is seeking to expand its business and Weiner says he has had enough. "What I would like to see is the removal of the stand," Weiner said...
...infringement on our business too great for me to ignore," Weiner told the council. "The permit, if granted, will be too devastating for my business to withstand...
...Irvine, Hitachi has built a high-tech research lab, which it shares with U.C.'s top-flight biochemistry department. Critics worry about the ethics of this cozy arrangement, despite strict conflict-of- interest rules drawn up by the university. "What forms of industrial cohabitation should a state-funded university permit?" asks Michael Schrage, a research affiliate at M.I.T. "It's one thing for a campus to encourage private industry to participate in research. It is quite another to have facilities that blur the line between private and proprietary...
This sort of speculation is as troubling to Germans as it is to their neighbors. So far, there is no consensus in the country on the use of German soldiers anywhere outside the territory of NATO, but the Kohl government has proposed a constitutional amendment to permit participation in U.N. peacekeeping operations. Some conservative political leaders believe German troops should also be available for such joint contingents as the U.S.-led coalition that fought the gulf...
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. This has perhaps been Clinton's top priority; only education could compete with it. The Governor has engineered a series of tax breaks for business that have totaled $150 million since 1983 (on top of already low taxes on corporations). Most important are provisions that permit manufacturers to claim 7% of their new investments against their sales-tax liabilities and that also exempt some of their equipment purchases from the sales taxes outright. The Governor's aides claim that the concessions have helped spur $8.2 billion of investment in new or expanded plants and have worked mightily...