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The 600 mSv figure is based on what the maximum allowable exposure might be for a 35-year-old woman.

NEW NASA RADIATION RULES COULD OPEN UP SPACE MISSIONS TO MORE WOMENNEEL V. PATELJUNE 30, 2021MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW

At the same time, allowable fines for some felony charges could exceed $75,000 — as in Hodgkins’s case — a more draconian scenario for defendants.

JAN. 6 RIOT CAUSED $1.5 MILLION IN DAMAGE TO CAPITOL — AND U.S. PROSECUTORS WANT DEFENDANTS TO PAYSPENCER HSUJUNE 3, 2021WASHINGTON POST

Maximum allowable line speeds, he reported, have doubled since 1979 with workers averaging 35 to 45 birds per minute.

EMPLOYERS’ NEW TOOLS TO SURVEIL AND MONITOR WORKERS ARE HISTORICALLY ROOTEDSAIMA AKHTARMAY 6, 2021WASHINGTON POST

At the same time, we are putting sewage into the river, and that’s not really allowable either.

ONE CITY’S FIGHT TO SOLVE ITS SEWAGE PROBLEM WITH SENSORSANDREW ZALESKIAPRIL 28, 2021MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW

Student mental health is also a point of concern, and one that has not been tackled by many so far, even though aid spending on such programs is allowable.

5 TAKEAWAYS ON SCHOOLS’ CORONAVIRUS AID SPENDINGASHLY MCGLONEAPRIL 26, 2021VOICE OF SAN DIEGO

Under the terms of the compromise hammered out with regulators, expenditures over the 9% limit are allowable if justified by an external study.

NATURAL GAS IS GETTING CHEAPER. THOUSANDS ARE PAYING MORE TO HEAT THEIR HOMES ANYWAY.BY LUCAS MANFIELD AND KEN WARD JR., MOUNTAIN STATE SPOTLIGHTAPRIL 17, 2021PROPUBLICA

Although the agency has set maximum allowable levels of metals like lead in bottled water, it has not regulated levels of metals in baby and toddler foods, with the exception of arsenic in rice cereal.

FDA TO URGE LIMITS ON HEAVY METALS IN BABY FOODS, STARTING WITH ARSENIC AND LEADLAURA REILEYAPRIL 12, 2021WASHINGTON POST

Google has another page that lists allowable use cases for Play Store apps querying your app list, including "device search, antivirus apps, file managers, and browsers."

NEW PLAY STORE RULES BLOCK MOST APPS FROM SCANNING YOUR ENTIRE APP LISTRON AMADEOAPRIL 2, 2021ARS TECHNICA

It would’ve been, under the rules, allowable for me to say we’re not seating the member from Iowa.

IOWA DEMOCRAT DROPS ATTEMPT TO CONTEST HOUSE RACE, CITING ‘TOXIC CAMPAIGN OF POLITICAL DISINFORMATION’MARIANNA SOTOMAYORMARCH 31, 2021WASHINGTON POST

They’re “linear” because the only allowable power is exactly 1 and graphs of solutions to the equations form planes.

NEW ALGORITHM BREAKS SPEED LIMIT FOR SOLVING LINEAR EQUATIONSKEVIN HARTNETTMARCH 8, 2021QUANTA MAGAZINE

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