Word: exempt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Justice Department's best-laid plans, however, may yet go astray. The Senate has already passed and the House is considering a bill that would exempt from antitrust action the banks involved in the six current cases. The bill would also make it vastly more difficult for Justice to bring antitrust suits against other U.S. banks, which many Congressmen feel are already amply regulated by federal agencies...
Oregon Democrat Edith Green tried to amend the bill to exempt people whose religion does not permit joining unions; her amendment was ruled "not germane." So strict were the limitations on debate that in order to complete her arguments, she three times had to borrow speaking time from the Republicans. To her fellow Democrats, Mrs. Green said acidly: "I'm greatly indebted to the people on the left side of the aisle who are so liberal they allow free expression here." Also beaten back were Republican attempts to bar union shops among unions that practice racial discrimination...
...Union contributed free office space in Manhattan. At Columbia, more than 300 students from 15 law schools attended the council's first big meeting. In Washington, Students Hirschkop (now a Virginia lawyer handling a key miscegenation case) and Richard Granat (Columbia '65) got the council declared tax-exempt in a record-breaking ten days - and helped attract another $75,000 in foundation money in the process...
Classical Christian theology holds that a transcendent Creator called life into being out of nothingness by an act of divine will, and governs the universe from outside creation-all-powerful, timeless and unchangeable. But Whitehead argued that a dynamic world could not have a static Creator who was exempt from the maturation experienced by finite beings. He therefore proposed that God, the source of all unactualized possibilities, was constantly creating within the universe. Thus God, like all other beings, is in some aspects incomplete and is man's companion on the creative advance toward perfection...
Yale's foundation-financed program will allow students to take five years to earn bachelors' degrees and to spend one of these "living and working" in Asia, Africa, or Latin America. During this year they are considered to be enrolled in the college and are therefore exempt from the draft...