Word: permitted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Others raise doubts whether the autocratic military structure can ever permit a fair trial for Calley or anyone else who may be charged in the case. They suspect that the Army may well try to blame low-echelon officers in order to absolve the top brass-and to avoid an indictment of its conduct of the war in general...
...secret meeting last week in Rome, South African Finance Minister Nicolaas Diedrichs and Paul Volcker, U.S. Treasury Under Secretary, framed a compromise. It would permit South Africa to sell a certain amount of new gold to the International Monetary Fund whenever the country's balance of payments was in deficit and the free price sank to $35 or less. The I.M.F. would pay the official price of $35 and could then resell the metal to central banks. The deal would provide a floor under the gold price, and something of a ceiling as well. Since the I.M.F. would...
...year began a joint Government-business-labor effort to avoid work stoppages, end restrictive practices and reduce price increases in construction, the nation's most flagrantly inflation-ridden industry. The highly inflated costs of medical care could be brought down if a powerful union?the American Medical Association?would permit less highly trained "paramedical" workers to perform simple functions like applying bandages and giving injections. Federal purchases could be more adroitly timed to take advantage of favorable prices. Government regulatory agencies might abolish minimum rates for freight shipments and other transportation, and permit competition to take over again. Oil-import...
Complying with a City Council order, the University has set back the fence around the Gund Hall construction site, to give pedestrians a full five feet of walking space on the adjacent sidewalk. The Council had issued a permit for the fence, but threatened to revoke it after hearing complaints that the fence-then in the middle of the sidewalk-was forcing pedestrians to walk in the street...
Time did not permit a wrestle-off in the 138-pound class, so Saturday's starter, Dean Sheppard. will again start tonight. He meets one of the R??men's best wrestlers, John Branner...