Word: allows
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Levine, whose shop has been in business in the square since 1929, stresses the presence of "mom and pop" businesses, economical prices and a friendly atmosphere which allow the square to remain competitive with malls...
...repeal initiative, and has said he would campaign hard against the measure in the general election campaign. He says he personally considers abortion homicide, but stresses he would not limit abortion rights. To bring down the cost of health care, Silber has said he supports living wills, which would allow health professionals to cease heroic measures to keep people alive if they indicated they would not want such procedures. Silber says this is one way to keep down the cost of health care. He opposes the death penalty...
...sufficient to meet monthly mortgage payments of nearly $6,000 on their newly remodeled home, plus private-school tuition for the children and other expenses. But the interest rate on their first mortgage has been reduced to 6%, while Union Bank, which holds a second mortgage, will allow him to skip payments while he is on active duty...
...many families, the increased minimum wage will scarcely be felt at all. But for others, it will at last allow some tiny luxuries. "It will mean a little more," says Ophelia Ratliff, a divorced mother of seven in Chicago. "It will mean I can buy more food." She works for $3.87 an hour doing housekeeping for the homebound and earns a bit extra as a housecleaner. "I'd be getting a little more from my work," she adds, "and I might take on more hours...
Even the most pessimistic forecasters were cheered when OPEC decided last week to allow its 13 members to increase production to make up the shortfall of roughly 4.6 million bbl. a day lost in the U.N.-mandated embargo on Iraqi and Kuwaiti crude. In the wake of the cartel's action -- Iraq and Libya did not attend the meeting in Vienna -- petroleum prices dropped about $2 in one day, to $26 per bbl. Toward week's end, however, traders began fretting once again about a possible gulf confrontation and a disruption in energy supplies; with that, the price for October...