Word: exempt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although a decision in the case will probably have to wait at least one more year, victory for the students would exempt all California students from drug testing and could have a national impact, Lempert said...
...place roadblocks in Reagan's way. Some congressional sources are pursuing the theory that in early 1983 the President and a few top members of his Cabinet decided to move some covert operations to the National Security Council staff, which, because it was not officially an intelligence agency, was exempt from congressional oversight -- or so the Administration thought...
...bill also empowers President Reagan to exempt certain items from the ban, including products essential for defense. Kongsberg hopes such an exemption would allow it to fulfill a $96 million contract to sell Penguin air-to-ship missiles to the Navy. Without that sale, Kongsberg might be forced to file for bankruptcy...
...studio, Madison braced himself for the gauntlet of demonstrators and special pleaders. He strode quickly past the suffragists with their banner: THE RITES OF MAN ARE WRONGS FOR WOMEN. He shook off two business lobbyists, easily identifiable by their soft Venetian boots, who wanted the Constitution specifically to exempt the game of rounders from the interstate commerce clause. Shy, soft-spoken and constantly embarrassed by his own meager war record, Madison found a delegation of Revolutionary War veterans harder to ignore. Confronted with half a dozen strapping backwoodsmen with rum on their breath and Valley Forge on their lips...
Under Graham's proposal, Coca-Cola would not be exempt from the "apartheid list," Slate said...