Word: allowed
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Both Lowell and Winthrop underwent many of the same changes. New pocket doors replaced old, smaller doorways to facilitate easier access, and the formerly separated food preparation areas gave way to open, airy spaces to allow for more communication between diners and staff...
...same, the First Amendment does not guarantee minors the right to purchase the same material that adults can. The FTC report suggested that more retailers should not let kids buy stickered CDs and video games, just as teens are barred from NC-17 films. This would allow record labels and video-game makers to release whatever they please, and adults to buy it and even pass it on to their kids if they thought that was O.K. But that's a prospect that makes entertainment executives nervous, since the market for the raunchiest and most belligerent pop culture is made...
...after the FTC issued its report, South Carolina attorney general Charlie Condon called it a "smoking gun" that would allow him and other state attorneys general to sue the entertainment companies in the same way they successfully sued the tobacco industry. "They're going after these kids full bore," he says. "It's like an aspirin company marketing adult aspirin to children in violation of their own standards." But a class action of the kind that brought down the cigarette makers would be a hard case. While the connection between smoking and cancer is backed by solid medical evidence...
...happened before." Vidal says the contemporary corruption of politics by Big Money could be halted "by one act of Congress, which is to require the networks and cable television to provide free time for an eight-week period, let's say, for the presidential election, and not allow anybody to buy any time. But Congress will never pass such a law, because no burglar after he gets to the second story ever kicks the ladder away...
...Jersey, pulling long hours and getting hostile glares from coworkers who thought she was too friendly to shoppers. She didn't mind the hassles. To Rodriguez it was strictly a means to an end - a menial, part-time job she needed to earn $300 for audition photos that would allow her to pursue her dream of becoming an actress...