Word: provisionally
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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House members wrote the new code of ethics into their rules more than a year ago, but legislation making it a law and extending it to the Executive and Judicial branches has been simmering in committee ever since. The code requires extensive disclosure by all Congressmen of their assets and...
The day before the first Senate vote, Carter met with DeConcini and tried to get him to modify the provision a bit. DeConcini would not budge, so the President, who needed all the votes he could get, gave in. With White House support, the reservation was approved by the Senate...
The Club's leaders seem to have read the proposed constitution quite selectively. They know exactly what their objections are to the section on minority representation; and they have combed the section on finances so carefully as to include ramifications which are not even explicit in the wording. But the...
Furthermore, Emmerich failed to note the fact that the funding problem is only one of seven problems the Club sees in the Constitution. The Republican Club also objects to the special representation provision of the Constitution--both in principle, because it awards extra votes to some students, and as applied...
The second level is the extensive decision-making that takes place in Harvard's relatively autonomous sub-units such as departments and Houses. Despite the convention's vaunted claims of decentralized government, the only organization it sets up is a College-wide Assembly to serve as a forum for student...