Word: permitting
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...candidates--until the last list--to the Harvard community. Secrecy might be necessary at the last stage of the process to protect the reputations of candidates. But with the field still so large, releasing the names could hardly compromise any potential Harvard president. And knowing specific names would permit Harvard constituencies to provide specific input on presidential candidates...
...some allusion is made to the possible demonism of Woman, but we do not discover the details until later. Playwright Coover's attitude toward the church is clear as the Priest voices his self-righteous rigidity. He says of the pregnancy, "Even if it should occur, we could not permit...
Predictably, Weld chose to refuse, citing the 1988 presidential campaign of Michael S. Dukakis campaign, in which the Massachusetts governor campaigned on his supposed sucess managing the state's finances. "I'm not going to permit a repeat of the 1988 campaign to occur," he said...
Kohl himself suggested that some of the Stasi material should remain secret. "We cannot permit a failed communist regime to posthumously poison the atmosphere in our country," the Chancellor said last week. "If there is evidence of a crime, then it should go before a court. But we should not start a witch hunt...
...Some Israeli hawks may dream of annexing the West Bank, but that has never been official policy. To the contrary, Jerusalem has often promised to permit some form of self-rule for the Palestinians, though it has dragged its heels unconscionably on doing so. Iraq initially proposed to set up a puppet state in Kuwait, but swiftly abandoned even that pretense. Baghdad now proclaims the emirate to be a province of Iraq and is trying, by such means as destruction of records, to obliterate any trace that there ever was a nation named Kuwait...