Word: allows
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...bargain price of $50 million in 1980, Harper revived the frozen-dinner company by adding 90 new selections. In the Beatrice deal, Harper reportedly picked up the company for less than half the price initially sought by financiers Kohlberg Kravis Roberts. Harper's management philosophy is to allow each ConAgra unit a high degree of autonomy. "We have more presidents than banks have vice presidents," he says. ConAgra's low-key style has paid off handsomely for shareholders. After ten years of record earnings, ConAgra stock that cost $100 in 1978 was worth $3,772 by the end of last...
...course, some transitional arrangements will be needed. It is possible, for example, to allow the stationing of Soviet troops for a certain period in what is today the German Democratic Republic. I also consider it feasible that in the parallel negotiations in Vienna -- but not in the Two-plus-Four framework -- we talk about troop levels generally. Because one point is very clear: the Soviet Union certainly has a legitimate security interest...
...ensuing months, he has also found himself under attack. Reason: Penrose's central conclusion is that computers will never think because the laws of nature do not allow it. That angers many artificial-intelligence researchers. M.I.T.'s Marvin Minsky, one of the field's pioneers, is downright hostile. Says he: "Penrose is O.K. when he talks about mathematics, but most of his evidence argues against his conclusions. As far as I can tell, he is just plain wrong." Stanford psychologist and AI researcher David Rumelhart is somewhat milder: "He defines intelligence too narrowly by saying it depends on consciousness...
...surprisingly, Mayhew was elated by the court decision. "This is a clear statement that school administrators across the U.S. must respect the religious beliefs of students and allow them to form clubs for prayer and support," she said. Much of the country's religious establishment also welcomed the ruling. "The court recognized the critical distinction between school-sponsored and student-sponsored religion: the former is unconstitutional; the latter is not," declared the Baptist Joint Committee on Public Affairs, the Christian Legal Society, the National Association of Evangelicals and the National Council of Churches in a joint statement. But some groups...
...indelible blot on every principle of British law and justice." But its supporters deemed enactment morally and legally essential. Citing recent outbreaks of anti-Semitism across Europe, Chief Rabbi Lord Jakobovits warned against sending "a wrong signal to a world seeking reassurance that civilized governments would never again allow such evil to triumph with impunity...