Word: permitted
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Repeated attempts to control the ivory trade have failed. The current system, set up under CITES in 1986, requires ivory-producing nations to adopt export quotas intended to safeguard existing elephant populations. In addition, each tusk in international trade must be covered by an export permit and marked with a unique serial number, which is recorded in a computer in Cambridge, England. Theoretically, that number allows nations to trace the tusk as it passes from country to country in trade. But many quotas have been ill-considered or ignored, falsified export documents have been discovered in numerous nations, and corrupt...
...will permit a bill outlawing flag burning to become law without his signature. "I don't think it's enough," Bush said, renewing his call for a constitutional amendment along the same lines but adding that he would not veto the legislation in the meantime...
...first time, the court will delve into the murky questions surrounding the hopelessly sick when they consider the case of Nancy Cruzan, a comatose patient in a Missouri hospital. The high bench is being asked to decide whether there is a constitutional right of privacy broad enough to permit her parents to request the withdrawal of feeding tubes so that she can die with dignity...
...startling connection was disclosed last week by June Gibbs Brown, inspector general of the Defense Department, in hearings held by Ohio Democrat John Glenn, chairman of the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee. Brown said the practice was designed to permit the Pentagon to avoid competitive bidding in hiring consultants, since this is not required of the Library. It also skirted a law requiring Government agencies to report how much they spend on consulting fees...
Dunbrack said that because the state does not permit same-sex marriages, Harvard should ask couples to sign a document testifying to their relationship, rather than seek financial information as proof...