Word: permitting
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Raul is widely expected to announce deeper changes during a speech on May 1, which is Labor Day for much of the world and a sacred date on the communist calendar. Since greater agricultural efficiency is regarded as his priority, some analysts say he might permit foreign investment in that sector as well. He may also allow Cubans to travel abroad freely and open the door to wider entrepreneurship in Cuba, letting business owners hire employees other than immediate family members and set their own prices...
...that this new policy will bring positive results. Ognjen Ilic ’09, a concentrator in physics, said that the new rule lends more options because of the extended period of time the foreign students can work outside of academia and explore science-related industries without a work permit. “I’m sure all of the international science concentrators here will like this change,” Ilic said. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff ’75 said in a press release that this rule will enable businesses to attract and retain highly skilled...
...since September 11, 2001, the legal waters have been muddied by repeated attempts by the Bush Administration to further define the meaning of the law. According to statements by CIA director Michael Hayden, three detainees in U.S. custody have been waterboarded. To permit these and other techniques, the White House and the Justice Department developed new definitions for terms like "torture" and "detainee" and expanded theories about the power of the President to override congressional oversight in time of war. A 2003 memo by John Yoo, a former Justice Department official, which was declassified last week, went...
Hampered by a lack of money and difficulties in attaining a permit, the church has made slow attempts at rebuilding, resulting in a “quasi-structure,” according to trip co-leader Jessica C. Frisina...
...security maze. He fumbled along tunnels, steel doors that opened and slammed as he passed along, entered a strange cylinder that fired a whoosh of air at him before he finally reached a large hall with an Israeli soldier sitting inside a bulletproof glass booth. Al-Wahedi showed his permit, explaining that he was due in surgery at 3:30 pm that afternoon...