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Word: provisionally (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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At the celebration itself, Marie raffles off a trip to Ireland. Massachusetts law allows such raffles only for church, charity, educational, civic, fraternal or veterans purposes. There is no provision for political raffles. Even if political raffles were legal, however, the law requires that the sponsoring organization purchase a raffle...

Author: By Mark A. Feldstein, | Title: Patronage, Nepotism and Conflict of Interest | 11/4/1978 | See Source »

Silber says that provision limiting college tuition hikes to the annual cost-of-living index is needed "to prevent colleges from abusing the plan," but Congressional sources indicate that the objections of several major universities, including Harvard, make it unlikely that the tuition limitations provision will survive committee review of...

Author: By David E. Sanger, | Title: New College Funding Plan Divides Silber, Educators | 11/3/1978 | See Source »

This last provision, known as the Ivy Amendment, helped a number of schools (including four Ivies) which otherwise would have been excluded from I-A, get into the top division. (All eight Ivy League schools are currently in Division I-A.) The provision was suggested by the Ivy League with...

Author: By Mark D. Director, | Title: NCAA Fun 'n Games | 10/27/1978 | See Source »

There is a new need to recognize that though universities have a concern and a responsibility toward the everyday world their primary, their fundamental, responsibility lies totally elsewhere. This is for basic investigation, for the pursuit of learning almost for learning's own sake, for poetry and for vision, and...

Author: By Celia W. Dugger, | Title: Professional Moonlighting | 10/24/1978 | See Source »

Partisan political motives of the Senate's majority Democrats were apparent in their treatment of the Republicans' highly publicized Kemp-Roth amendment, which called for slashing income tax rates by 33% over the next three years. On a virtual party-line vote, the Senate two weeks ago killed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Congress Gets the Antitax Message | 10/23/1978 | See Source »

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