Word: allow
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...robots take over more and more of our tasks, we must be sure that we never allow the mechanical grasp to exceed our reach...
Meanwhile, many of the 65 towns that voted against 2½ are demanding to be exempted from it. Cambridge, a Boston suburb where voters opposed the tax-slashing measure, is planning to introduce a home rule bill in the state legislature that would allow the city to override 2½. Otherwise, Cambridge officials estimate, they will have to cut more than $7 million from the school budget and possibly lay off 470 of the school system's 1,300 employees. "It is the most illogically conceived piece of legislation in this or any state," says Cambridge City Manager James...
...minds." Under other circumstances, the dissidents would be targeted for harassment or arrest by Kama's government, which needs to prove its toughness to Moscow. But the alliance between workers and dissidents, even if temporary, gives the dissidents a kind of protective coloration. "We won't allow for any crackdown, particularly on KOR," Walesa told TIME. "They are our friends and they can always count...
...determination of a sentence. "Imposition of a ten-year sentence where a 25-year sentence is permissible under the statute," he argued, "constitutes a finding that the facts justify only a ten-year sentence." Brennan warned that the logical extension of the court's reasoning might allow Congress to grant prosecutors the power to appeal acquittals...
Meanwhile, the decision encouraged reformers who are unhappy about wide variations in punishment. They have been pressing legislatures to allow the sometimes capricious decisions of sentencing judges to be re-examined at higher levels. "With appellate review," says University of Virginia Law Professor John Jeffries, "defendants across the board will be treated more like each other...