Word: sanction
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...thus accelerate the trend toward U.S. accommodation with Peking. As one Nationalist official puts it, the great fear is that ultimately "a two-China policy might lead to a one-China policy." By that he meant a situation under which the U.S. would allow, if not openly sanction, a Peking takeover of Taiwan...
...regime seems to be following that line of reasoning toward Russia's 3,500,000 Jews, of whom some 30,000 have applied for exit visas to Israel. Since the Soviet Union denies its citizens the right to emigrate, the assumption has been that the Kremlin could not sanction a Jewish exodus without arousing other dissatisfied minority nationalities. Nonetheless, rather than openly crush the Jews and incur bad publicity abroad, the Soviets apparently have decided to take the risk. From a mere handful, the number of Jews allowed to leave Russia has now grown...
...mostly Arab-were expropriated for the housing. "No Arab land was taken that was being put to any use," insists Mayor Kollek. "It was all rock, unusable for agriculture. We've tried to build in a reasonable way." Nevertheless Arab owners refuse to accept payment because this would sanction Israel's right of eminent domain...
...Boston, David, 36, a divorced architect, and Sarah, 29, a researcher for a consulting firm, have an "arrangement"; like an increasing number of other American couples, they live together in David's Cambridge walkup apartment in a "marriage" that has endured solidly for two years without benefit of legal sanction. They sometimes join David's ex-wife and his son, Jonathan, 5, for dinner. Bubbly, attractive Sarah still maintains her own apartment and sometimes spends a few days there...
...research agreement between the University and an external sponsor must have obtained some form of sanction in advance to insure that it con-forms to University principles and doesn't conflict with the rights of others...