Word: permitting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Another district initiative, however, has angered environmentalists. A proposed "market-permit program" would allow businesses that meet emission- reduction targets to sell unused "emission credits" to firms that have failed to do so. Critics charge that the program would encourage well-heeled companies to buy their way out of compliance instead of reducing pollution...
...state's communities have imposed some form of restraint on growth, but urban and suburban subdivisions keep sprawling. The legislature passed laws in 1973 to ensure sustainable management of the forests, but timber companies have replanted new species instead of maintaining existing forests and have cut too often to permit the forest to regenerate itself. And though Los Angeles has made progress against smog, air quality has plummeted in other parts of the state...
...look in the other direction -- Europe -- to form new strategic alliances. "And that," vows Ross, "is exactly what's going to happen." The company could sell an additional 7 1/2% stake in Time Warner Entertainment and still retain an 80% interest -- the minimum level of ownership that would permit it to deduct any losses from the partnership from Time Warner's own taxes...
...display of their numbers on individual calls but not be able to demand that the phone company automatically block their numbers from being displayed at any time. The conflict may have to be resolved in the courts or Congress. The Senate has before it a bill that would permit the per-call restrictions proposed by the FCC. The House is considering a version that would allow the broader limits favored by some states. Telephone-company executives expect the two measures to be reconciled by the end of the year...
...least shut it down and reorganize it. There are some schools in this state I would not want any of my children attending, and I think it is terribly wrong that we permit them to continue. My first instinct would be to collaborate with the people involved and try to get them to improve the situation. But if that did not work, of course we would want to change the situation...