Word: allows
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...supporters charge that CAREFUL simply restates existing pesticide laws. At the same time, the timber industry has united behind the New Forestry Initiative, which it says would ban clear- cutting only in old-growth forests while reducing the practice 50% in all others. Conservationists complain that it would still allow wholesale razing as long as one tree an acre was left standing. They call the plan Big Stump...
...fiber-optic cable, federation is the future. But federation works only under the condition of freedom. Otherwise what passes for federation is really colonialism. And though colonialism had a good 500-year run, it is spent. The only way to turn colonial empires into real federations is to allow them to break up into their constituent parts and hope that in their wisdom they will see fit to knit themselves back together again...
Sanctions mandated by the Security Council would be compulsory for all members. That would make it easier for Japan and some European countries heavily dependent on Middle Eastern oil to take a stand against Iraq. Articles 41 and 42 of the U.N. Charter allow the imposition of a total embargo against an offending state and "action by air, sea or land forces" to restore peace and security...
...crisis, over the brink into recession. Perhaps more important, Saddam's move on the Middle East is an unexpected test of whether nations will pay the necessary price to assure peace and stability in the new global climate. Said a senior State Department official: "You just cannot allow this kind of behavior to go unchecked...
...Steinbrenner, 60, choose perpetual exile into irrelevance over a two-year sentence? The commissioner guesses that Steinbrenner believed the fig leaf of continuing as a silent partner in the Yankees would allow him to hang on to his other sports post as a vice president of the U.S. Olympic Committee. But that is a dubious proposition, since there are already loud rumbles within the Olympic Committee that Steinbrenner will be pressured to resign. Deciphering Steinbrenner's motivations has never been easy, since there is always a peculiar disconnection between his words and his deeds. But last week he was uncharacteristically...