Word: provisionally
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retroactive pay for women employees who have been paid salaries lower than those of men doing the same work. This provision is a commitment in principle, Wright said, HEW is still investigating the specific charges of discrimination in pay, and has not confirmed any yet.
But whose fault is it that everything about the production-including the Caligari -like setting-is inimical to the reality portrayed? It is too easy to criticize students who have responded deeply enough to a serious and difficult play to invest the necessary time and pain involved in its presentation...
Justice William O. Douglas dissented, claiming that the exemption provision is unconstitutional in that it discriminates in favor of religious persons and against humanists and atheists with similar scruples against war.
Although the Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, F. Edward Hebert (D-La.) has insisted that the President already has the power to abolish undergraduate deferments, there has been considerable Administration pressure for a special congressional provision specifically giving the President such power.
The provision, known as the Civil Obedience Act of 1968, makes it a federal crime to obstruct law enforcement officers or firemen doing their lawful duty in connection with a civil disorder which obstructs a federally-protected function.