Word: allowed
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Baumann said the moratorium was not directed towards Harvard's proposal for a modern art museum at the current site of the Mahoney's Garden Center on Memorial Drive, but was intended instead to allow the neighborhood to evaluate what they want in the entire area...
...with glasses is giving instructions: "Now, a lot of media are going to ask you questions, and a lot are going to want to get to places they can't go, so no matter what they tell you, just tell them that you don't have the authority to allow them to go there." A reporter watches the group with bemusement as he sips water from a fountain--he knows very well that he'll get where he can't go, or else he'll be fired...
...outscored peers who had fewer days even if they came from households with little education. Also promising are schedules that stick to the 180-day norm but replace the three-month summer with several three-week respites throughout the year. The shorter vacations cut down on learning losses and allow teachers to intervene when students start lagging...
...easy to see why, when you look at what they are watching: "Survivor" and other examples of so-called "reality TV." Americans want to watch real people in real situations (or at least ones that allow them to suspend their disbelief), finding their way without a script to solutions that are never entirely predictable. Compare that with the cheesy four-day infomercials put on by two parties doing their best to look just like each other - just what is the difference between a "Compassionate Conservative" and a "New Democrat," anyway? - and it's obvious why only C-SPAN junkies...
...said the freedom that cable networks allow has given him more creative control over his writing...