"Forgive my insistence, senor, but how can you permit such abuses?"

WHILE adoption scams are hardly new, the nature of the Internet permits abuses, said Parry Aftab, a lawyer in New York who specializes in Internet issues and is the director of Cyberangels (www.cyberangels.com), a volunteer group that monitors the Web.

Incompetent managers permitted sordid abuses of patronage, including sinecures for mistresses and relatives.

Analysis of Government studies shows that for years the Department of Energy, citing national security and asserting that outsiders could not understand processes unique to the production of nuclear weapons, permitted environmental abuses that would have been illegal and were almost unheard-of among private companies.

The report was similar to one last year asserting that the Army and Air Force in Europe permitted abuses against women on duty with American forces there, according to people who have read both reports.

However, Goldman also warned that the burden on U.S.-based payment service providers and ad networks could drive business to foreign competitors and permit domestic and foreign legal action simultaneous with the ITC administrative proceeding, or other abuses.

Of all of Russia's social ills, Radischev especially despised the inequality and prolongation of serfdom, rooted in a traditional social system that enforced a strict hierarchy and permitted abuses and exploitation.

A year earlier, a delegation toured American bases in Western Europe and reported that the Army and the Air Force were permitting abuses against women.

School officials and administrators said there were too many safeguards, including the contract requirements, to permit blatant abuses.

The Commission will certainly not agree to any solution which permits very obvious abuses and can be got round in a very easy way.