Word: allows
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...guilty to 34 counts of falsifying test results on key parts for cruise missiles and AV-8B Harrier jump jets. In part because of those abuses, the Pentagon banned the company from receiving new contracts. But the Defense Department disclosed last week that it has waived the ban to allow the Navy to buy 104 more Harrier gyroscopes (total price: $300,000), which are made only by Northrop. Because the gyroscopes last only about two-thirds as long as promised, the Navy has been grounding the planes. At least 10 of the jets are now stationed in the Persian Gulf...
Bush continues to promote a constitutional amendment to require a balanced budget. The President also pleads for the line-item veto, which would permit him to excise specific parts of large-appropriations bills. The proposed amendment is an illusion: it would have to allow for unforeseen contingencies such as war, and it would not have much impact for several years. The line- item veto, a scalpel wielded by 41 Governors, might be more difficult to use on the highly complex federal budget...
...this straight--I tell this tale not for sympathy (I could always dwell on the hair-loss thing for that). No, my strong social conscience refuses to allow me to remain silent. I have been a victim of a vicious societal prejudice...
...Thernstrom's credit that she makes this elaborate tale of injustice seem so real to the reader. She accomplishes this by strongly, effectively communicating who Roberta Lee was, what she liked, what she wanted, what pained her. Thernstrom does not allow Lee to become a two-dimensional character doomed to die. The senselessness of her friend's death is never forgotten by the book...
...cruel and unusual punishment not to allow us to have animals," said one Adams House junior, who spoke on condition of anonymity. "Animals have always been a part of my life...[they are a] great therapy...