Word: exempt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chances of survival for a proposal to exempt college students from the 8 per cent meal tax appear almost non-existent, State Rep. Vincent J. Piro, the chairman of the Taxation Committee of the Massachussetts State Legislature, said yesterday...
Jail Threat. In fact, the Ford proposals would exempt journalists from prosecution. What worries many reporters is that if they receive embargoed information from a government source, they could be declared witnesses to a possible crime; they could then be called before a grand jury to divulge their sources and, if they refused, jailed for contempt. Predicts Los Angeles Times Editor William Thomas: "Not a hell of a lot of newspapers are going to take a chance, knowing what lies in store...
...agenda a year ago-was the premier topic. There was no way to avoid it. Last June the U.S. Supreme Court threw out uniform minimum fees set by bar groups and ruled that attorneys-as well as doctors or other members of so-called learned professions-were not automatically exempt from antitrust laws. The same day the court held that the right of an abortion-referral agency to run informational advertisements is protected by the free-speech guarantee. In a talk to a lawyers' group, Deputy U.S. Attorney General Bruce Wilson spelled out a blunt warning: "An agreement...
...Physical conditioning will include tough daily exercises, scrambling over obstacle courses and wriggling underneath barbed wire. Boxing? "We require it of the males because we're trying to teach them that it is better to give than to receive," said one briefing officer. But the women will be exempt from boxing and wrestling; they will substitute judo and karate. The female plebes, however, will undergo the same painful, often humiliating seven-week initiation ritual that male cadets have dubbed "Beast Barracks." Its main features: incessant needling from upperclassmen, split-second obedience to their slightest commands and constant criticism...
...admits that he might as well have made the remark. His loyalty to Nixon was total. Chief of Staff Bob Haldeman once warned him: "Richard Nixon will use anybody. Remember that. When he doesn't need you, he'll discard you." But Colson thought he was somehow exempt from this treatment...