Word: permitting
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...Removing the dark pall of political controversy and polemics from the ROTC ceremony will not impugn the progressive credentials of the President or her University. Rather, it will permit, if only for a moment, the ROTC students a much-deserved yet seldom-granted spotlight...
...dens, second-hand cell phone shops and budget hostels popular with petty traders from overseas, dozens of stranded merchants mill around helplessly. Many hold passports from a list of 33 countries, mostly from South Asia and the Middle East, whose citizens are now barred from applying for any entry permit to China in Hong Kong-a sign, perhaps, of China's concern about a potential Muslim terror threat. Mohammed Salim, a Karachi-based trader who makes his living selling fake watches from China, says consular authorities in Pakistan instructed him to obtain his Chinese visa in Hong Kong. But after...
Turkish businesses, meanwhile, invested $28 billion in Russia last year, up from $15 billion in 2005. They are poised to take advantage of the $1 trillion that Russia says it will spend on infrastructure by 2020. And while Turkey refused to permit U.S. troops to invade neighboring Iraq from its territory in 2003, Turkish construction and retail companies have since invested up to $10 billion in the war-torn country...
...demand, since raw-milk products--milk, cheese, yogurt and cream--can be sold at a thick premium. But both buyer and seller may be at odds with the law. Though the FDA allows the sale of raw-milk cheese that has been aged for 60 days, it doesn't permit the sale of raw milk over state lines. Six states allow the sale of raw milk in stores, and 28 let consumers buy the straight stuff only on the farm where it is produced. In the rest, raw milk exists only on the black market...
...have been open for a year and a half and in the beginning it was very difficult. There was a stiff investigation to get a permit for a night like this," says Yahia as the band finishes up a song by Algerian rai music legend Khaled, before launching into a cover of The Eagles' "Hotel California." "But slowly things are getting easier...