Word: provisionally
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The bill would have made union organizing easier by simplifying the enforcement of existing labor-relations laws. A key provision would have given any worker fired for union recruiting-such firings are already banned by law-time and a half in back pay. At present, such a worker must be...
Byrd knew he had 58 votes. He hoped that he could persuade Alabama Democrat John Sparkman to cast the 60th vote if the 59th could be secured. Byrd had acquired a pledge of that vote from Louisiana Democrat Russell Long, who would switch from his pro-filibuster stand if, among...
Another controversial NIH proposal is the issue of greater autonomy for local biohazards committees. NIH's new proposals would allow these groups to grant preliminary approval for research, allowing the researcher to begin his experiments, with a review by NIH to follow. Talbot said this provision would eliminate bureaucratic red...
Macy D. Koehler, the biohazards safety officer for the University, says the proposed change is welcome. The old system "is a phenomenal waste of time and paper," she added. Some critics, however, believe this provision might entrust too much power to local committees, whose objectivity they question. Zimmerman noted that...
In this structure there is no provision for affecting policy-making in Harvard's smaller fiefdoms. Indeed, by the time grassroots student activism filters up the Assembly by way of elected representatives or students referenda, is fussed over in that deliberative body, and passed back down, any impetus for change...