Word: suspender
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...solution, Wriston argues, would be to grant the President and a panel of four or five wise people the absolute authority to suspend all restrictions in order to permit the construction of five to ten huge energy projects. "By limiting the number of projects, we would limit damage to the environment. We have to be prepared to say, 'The steam shovel starts tomorrow morning, and the snail darter will go the way of all flesh, but the lights won't go out.-" If, on the other hand, the U.S. remains unwilling to compromise, it will be plagued...
NOYCE'S NOSTALGIA is so wide-eyed and enthusiastic, so genuine, that you can't trash it as easily as Grease or Bye Bye Birdie. If you can suspend your understandable desire for a visible plot, and overlook gaping holes in construction, Newsfront may draw you in. If you're a sucker for nostalgia, stay and see it twice--the second ride, when you know where the bumps are, is easier to take...
Walden said it is unusual to suspend a worker without a hearing...
Since UNCTAD last met in Kenya three years ago, several Latin American governments as well as Sri Lanka, India and others have moved toward more reliance on free market economics. A resolution calling for the industrialized nations to cancel or suspend debts of the LDCs was quietly suppressed by some of the capitalistic advanced-developing countries. Although the U.S. had already written off $500 million in debts owed by 15 of the poorest nations, ADCs like South Korea, Singapore and Brazil have feared that any further write-off would make them appear to be poor credit risks and that international...
Egypt was also suspended from the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries and will thus lose its shares in three inter-Arab companies with a total capital of $2.8 billion. Although it did not specify exactly when the decision would take effect, the Arab Civil Aviation Council voted to close Arab airspace to Egypt's national airline, EgyptAir, and ordered its 17 member airlines to suspend flights to Egypt...