Word: permitting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...redecorating the private quarters to suit her informal style, which favors quilts and rocking chairs. She has already moved a table and white wicker chairs into the kitchen upstairs so that the family can eat breakfast and dinner in a cozier manner than the imposing dining room would permit. And she has had bedside phones installed that do not require going through a switchboard. "He sleeps here and has his phone," she says, indicating one side of the queen-size bed. "And I sleep there and have mine." She furnished her husband's private study next to the Oval Office...
There was some debate about what conditions would permit an emeritus faculty member to teach departmental courses. And amendment to make it less difficult for retired professors to teach departmental classes failed...
...committee voted down an amendment to the Zoning Ordinances which would have placed a one-year restriction on any development larger than 10,000 square feet without a specific permit from the city Planning Board...
Although developers could still apply for a permit, she said the amendment sends bad signals in the market and "puts everything in a state of flux...
...just society will go to great lengths to discourage violent crimes of hatred. Should a free society go so far as to punish the hatred as well as the violence? More than a dozen states have enacted laws that permit courts to increase the jail time for offenders whose crimes have been motivated by prejudice on the basis of such things as race, religion, ethnicity, gender and sexual orientation. Like the speech codes aimed at legislating civility among students on college campuses, hate-crime laws have spawned a controversy among legal scholars and interest groups. At its center...