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Word: provisionally (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Moreover, the study group recommended that Congress enact legislation suspending the equal opportunities provision of the Federal Communications Act, "requiring networks to release each week to their licensees twenty 30-second prime-time segments restricted for sale to political candidates during the campaign period," and permitting networks to deduct from...

Author: By Stephen P. Anthony and James S. Glanzer, S | Title: Report Proposes More Air Time for Candidates | 8/1/1978 | See Source »

The Supreme Court will presumably have to deal with these conflicts, for several pending cases will test the Government's use of preferential treatment in employment. The Communications Workers of America have petitioned the Supreme Court to review a costly agreement between the Federal Government and American Telephone and Telegraph...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bakke Wins, Quotas Lose | 7/10/1978 | See Source »

Civil liberties advocates were particularly pleased by the requirement that officials balance the public interest with the needs of national security when considering a request for the release of classified information. The effect of this provision will be to make appeals easier. Said American Civil Liberties Union Lawyer Mark Lynch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Lifting the Lid | 7/10/1978 | See Source »

Under the terms of the Salisbury Agreement, the white electorate must vote in a referendum whether to accept that settlement. As a last-ditch maneuver, Smith could conceivably use this provision as an excuse to declare the March 3 agreement null and void and to restore himself as Rhodesia'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RHODESIA: Savagery and Terror | 7/10/1978 | See Source »

The House has been chipping away relentlessly at Carter's package. Congressional pressure has forced him to reduce the size of the tax cut he proposed from $25 billion to $15 billion. Meanwhile, the House Ways and Means Committee has scrapped one "reform" provision after another. Deductions have been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Tussle Over a Two-Bit Tax Cut | 7/10/1978 | See Source »

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