Word: exempt
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...nevertheless an effective, competent minority leader." After his appointment as vice president, Ford continued to defend his record on civil rights (citing his support for the Philadelphia Plan to hire more blacks as a partial counterbalance) and on foreign policy, which he says should be bipartisan and so presumably exempt from far-reaching criticism. "That bipartisanship deteriorated in 1971 and '72 as far as Vietnam was concerned," Ford complained to U.S. News and World Report, citing his own support for President Johnson's Vietnam policy "as to objectives" (tactically, he thought the war should be fought more vigorously...
Such gains will probably be lost if the current proposal for reform is approved. On December 19, Gwynne B. Evans and Jean H. Slingerland, director and assistant director of Expository Writing, submitted a proposal to the Faculty Council to exempt over 500 students from the writing requirement, to eliminate the middle-group courses, and to standardize Expos 10 with one text, one exam, and one syllabus for the 1000 who score below 700 on the English Composition Achievement Test. The proposal has not yet been passed, because of considerable controversy between the teaching and the administrative staffs of the program...
...Hearst family holdings worth "hundreds of millions of dollars," from Mexican silver mines to IBM stock. No matter that the vast majority of the holdings belong to the foundation, since that is merely "a tax loophole," he said. Even the family's objets d'art were not exempt from S.L.A. attention: among other things, Hearst owned "24 Greek vases valued at $10,000 each" plus "a collection of Oriental rugs given to him by his personal friend the Shah of Iran." The kidnapers' assertions were apparently based on various published estimates of the Hearst empire...
...have learned to explain much of what was once inexplicable, but mysteries remain. The workings of the mind still resist rational analysis; reports of psychic phenomena persist. Are they all accident, illusion? Or are there other planes and dimensions of experience and memory? Could there be a paranormal world exempt from known natural...
Cabot, senior vice president of Wellington Management was officially appointed Wednesday. The announcement came only hours after George Putnam '49, treasurer of the University, was notified that the establishment of a separate management company, wholly owned by the Corporation, would not endanger the tax-exempt status of Harvard's portfolio...