Word: iron-clad
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There are several rules and conditions surrounding this right. The dependent child either must be under 19 years old or else must attend school during some part of at least five monts during the tax year. Most important, a very definite "iron-clad" rule says that a parent must still pay half of Junior's expenses to claim him as a dependent. This provision is almost tissue-paper thin. Half of Junior's expenses to claim him as a dependent. This provision is almost tissue-paper thin...
...Senate's questionable action came partially as the result of a shattered illusion. Visualizing Europe as an immense soldier to fight the Russian Bear, the Senators pictured EDC as a suit of iron-clad armor. When France refused to help make that protection, the Committee shut off dollar aid. It reasons that since the Coal and Steel Community was to have been the economic framework for EDC, French rejection makes the Community nearly valucless. What the argument ignores is that the ECSC is necessary for a strong economy, and that by injuring this economy the Senators are knocking the backbone...
...thousands of copies of the book, just for adding a name and biography. (One West Coast multimillionaire offered to buy $2,000 worth of books if Who's Who would just include a long list of his wife's French forebears.) But Editor Sammons has an iron-clad rule that "you cannot buy, bribe or flatter your way into...
...return engagement which opened yesterday at Boston's Federal Court Building the Jenner Senate Internal Security Subcommittee broke one of its supposedly iron-clad rules by calling a witness who cooperated in executive session into public session...
Colonel Bostrom said, however, that the flying requirement is still only a factor and not an iron-clad clause, and that academic standing will continue to be important for admittance to the advanced course...