Word: allowable
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...booboo." To keep people "involved" in the All-Star game, Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn decided last winter to again let the fans make the selections instead of the players. To prevent ballot stuffing, Kuhn arranged to have the voting policed and tabulated by computer. Trouble was, to allow enough time for programming the computer, managers and player representatives had to select the nominees last spring, which is about as reliable as trying to predict the Dow-Jones averages eight months in advance. Spaces were left on the ballot for write-in votes-but how many fans will take the time...
Some companies have already set up tax-sheltered trusts that allow their workers to become stockholders on credit. When the employees of San Francisco-based First California Co. found that the investment banking firm was for sale, they converted their profit-sharing plan into a stock bonus trust. The trust used its cash, plus a borrowed $1,000,000, to buy F.C.C.'s common shares, pledging the assets of the company to secure the loan. Within 2± years, the trust repaid the loan out of company profits. In similar fashion, employees used a Kelso-devised fund...
...enliven courses which have ceased to speak to the condition of the new young and which have failed to make attractive to them the achievement of the degree of freedom we enjoy, so painfully and slowly won. Those of various kinds, militantly on the defensive, disinclined to allow any claims of discontent or to make any concessions to the fierce urgency of the desire for reform that now rages among us, a rage obviously not without justification...
Though Harvard Stadium seats more than 35.000, tickets for the concerts are restricted to 10.000 seats, to allow all present a better sound. All tickets cost $2. The schedule of the remaining concerts is as follows...
...sincerity was dubious. They were sensitive to the fact that the SMC is financed by Cyrus Eaton, an industrialist. They felt that the conference had dealt with union leaders, but not with the rank and file members. They attacked the non-exclusionary sentiment of the SMC group which would allow the movement to tolerate liberal politicians who happened to be against...