As long as we permit corporate medicine to squander precious resources on marketing, excessive administrative costs and profits, patients will be left in the lurch.
But even as we permit expression of the widest range of ideas, we must also take responsibility for debating and challenging expression with which we profoundly disagree.
So if I am right that we are storytelling creatures, and as long as we permit ourselves to be quiet for a while now and then, the eternal narrative will continue.
But as long as we permit those in power to make unilateral choices that affect us, we shouldn't thwart low-risk efforts, like those of Facebook and OkCupid, to rigorously determine the effects of those choices.
As we permit more and more market forces to take command of the health care industry, it shouldn't surprise anyone that the new drug dealer will not be found in the shadows, offering sinsemilla under his breath.
Re "Keeping Politics in the Shadows" (editorial, July 28), about a Republican filibuster of a financial disclosure bill: Corruption is assured as long as we permit big money to drive politics in our country.
Once again we, as educators, are allowing others to make important educational decisions without having any educational background--much as we permit politicians to set educational policy.
Finally, we restricted the use of some movement re-education techniques (i.e., those that use active movement) and excluded a subset of clinical massage that involved formulaic styles such as Rolfing or Hellerwork, although we permitted use of individual techniques that are used in these styles.
If we permit as or and as, then the discussion will be much more complex.
In recent work, John Manchak (2009) has argued that this example is even stronger than it appears, as underdetermination persists even if we permit ourselves the assumption that all physical laws we determine locally apply throughout the universe as a whole.
Harris, his dad, Wendy's dad, Carl, John, and I watched as much football as we were permitted.
