Word: permitting
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...oath. For those reasons, its probe stands a better chance than previous investigations of unearthing enough evidence to determine whether the search for missing Americans should be continued. Moreover, the replacement of the Soviet Union by a new Commonwealth of Independent States seeking good relations with the U.S. could permit American investigators to learn at last what Moscow knows about the MIAs...
After Gorbachev handed over custody of the nuclear arsenal and the codes that permit strategic missiles to be launched, Yeltsin declared himself sole inheritor of "the button," as he called the code box. "There will be only one button," he said. "The other republics are not going to have any other buttons." Even so, he said, he had agreed with the Presidents of the other three republics where the missiles are still located that any decision to use them would have to be made unanimously by the four...
...than a century, many of the elite Mardi Gras krewes, which organize colorful carnival balls and parades, have been white, all-male organizations. But in a unanimous decision last week, the city council ruled that any krewe that bars blacks, Jews or women could not only lose its parade permit but also face criminal penalties...
...while intoxicated. In New York City last month, six youths were killed when the car in which they were riding went out of control while it was speeding late at night on a deserted street in the Bronx. The 18-year-old driver, who had only a learner's permit, had consumed more than twice the amount of alcohol required to qualify as legally drunk. In 1989, according to the National Traffic Safety Administration, 3,539 deaths in the 15-to-20 age group resulted from traffic accidents in which alcohol played a part...
...Permit me to take the opportunity to report that the struggle for democracy continues in South Africa, that the outcome is by no means assured, and that precisely at this moment, the democratic forces there need as much support as they can muster from friends abroad in order to assure that the outcome of the forth-coming negotiations will not be merely a cosmetic adjustment that leaves the Nationalist Party in a position to veto genuine reform...