Word: exempt
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...instance, a Biology concentrator would be required to take a class from the Foreign Cultures, History, Literature, Art/Music, Moral Reasoning and Social Analysis selections. The seventh Core course could be taken in either History or Literature. Biology concentrators would be exempt from the Physical Science, Life Science and Quantitative Reasoning requirements...
...about the morning coffees and the Lincoln Bedroom sleepovers at the White House? The Hatch Act does forbid executive branch employees from fundraising, and it prohibits all fundraising on government property. But on this score, you can pick your loophole from a number of options: (1)The Hatch Act exempts the President and Vice President from its provisions; (2) specific areas of the White House are exempt from the governmental property provision; (3) the entire act applies only to contributions to campaigns, not parties. The conclusion: No illegal activity here either...
...anything wrong. "Everything I did, I understood to be lawful," he said. The phone calls, he explained, were charged to the Democratic National Committee, not to taxpayers. While stressing that he had never solicited federal employees for donations, Gore said that his status as Vice President means he is exempt from federal laws that prohibit fund-raising in public buildings. Brushing off a report in The Washington Post on Sunday that he had strong-armed contributors, the Vice President said that he had actually felt "uncomfortable" pressing DNC supporters for donations. But he added that faced with superior Republican campaign...
Some German officials argue that the whole fuss was cranked up by the Scientologists "to achieve what we won't give them: tax-exempt status as a religion. This is intimidation, pure and simple." Scientologists campaigned in the U.S. for years before receiving tax exemption in 1993, and Washington has not asked Bonn to grant...
Even more ridiculous, rich Harvard, the largest landowner in Cambridge, is exempt from nearly all taxes because of its "non-profit" status...