Word: exempt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...want to start learning on our own, and we simply have to ask the faculty now to initiate a program they probably wouldn't propose on their own," he continued. However, the spokesman noted that the students would not ask the faculty to exempt them from the traditional examinations...
...affluent districts which send large numbers of their eligible young men to college, or in farm districts which have a substantial portion of their registrants in draft-exempt agricultural employment, boards have been extremely hard-pressed to find non-student inductees. Boards in southern states have already drafted substantial numbers of full-time students. But in other states--Illinois and Michigan, for example--there is no indication that boards will take students...
...port city of Cartagena. This year it has sprouted eight other foreign branches from West Berlin to Kuala Lumpur. At home, it has blanketed New York City and suburbs with 151 branches, fully exploiting its status as the city's only nationally chartered bank, thus being exempt from New York State's strict limits on branching. Hoping to catch up with Citibank, stockholders of Chase Manhattan last week voted to switch to a national charter...
...their seminars, and the tone of their manifesto was strangely reminiscent of Thich Tri Quang, leader of Viet Nam's militant Buddhist mobs, who by coincidence was in Hué for a rally of his own. Taking no chances, Ky softened the draft. The army would exempt intellectuals holding "important" positions, announced Defense Minister Nguyen Huu Co, and would give many others only a quick training course and return them to their desks-in uniform...
Last week Judge Jameson heard the case and granted Mrs. Colliflower's petition. Because she was sentenced with no chance to defend herself, said the judge, "I must conclude that there was a lack of due process under the Fifth Amendment." Mrs. Colliflower is not exempt from retrial and possible conviction, but her victory will sharply curb the power of tribal courts...