The fine of 150,000 Dong — a little over eight dollars — has helped to encourage compliance, and police officers are inclined to enforce it because they are permitted to keep seventy per cent of the fines, I'm told.
The Rockets cannot outbid the Knicks, but because they are under the cap, they are permitted to give Lin a balloon payment — a so-called poison pill — in the third year of his deal.
This took the form of a letter, because letters were permitted where books were not.
The high recruitment rates may have been because we were permitted (by the university research ethics committee) to telephone respondents directly, rather than recruiting by written communication.
The officials spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not permitted to publicly discuss the matter.
The transaction is expected to be announced on Wednesday morning, said these people, who requested anonymity because they were not permitted to speak publicly about the talks.
Several Pakistani officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not permitted to talk to news organizations, confirmed the meetings.
American intelligence agencies were tracking bin Laden but wouldn't give information to the F.B.I.'s law-enforcement division, where White had many friends, because they weren't permitted to talk to each other.
The official, who apparently spoke to CBS News on condition of anonymity because they were not permitted to provide information to the media, said the request was made by the city police to prevent a potential safety risk.
