Word: provisionally
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Even by Senate standards, the provision was a triumph of devious verbosity. It granted a special tax break on corporate debts "if such indebtedness was originally incurred before May 30, 1985, by a domestic corporation which was incorporated on March 18, 1983, in Delaware, and which indebtedness was subsequently transferred...
The maneuver failed: the full Senate two weeks ago knocked the benefit for Unocal out of the mammoth tax bill prepared by the Senate Finance Committee. But the Unocal provision was one of only a handful of such goodies that bit the dust. Some 170 others were in the 1...
As the song goes some of us like to drinkalone. If you want to stock up on alcohol in yourroom there are a couple of places to go. Thefavorite is Harvard Provision on Mt.Auburn, affectionately known as the "Pro." Anotherchoice in the square is Varsity Liquor,where the price knows...
YET, FOR ALL HIS accomplishments in four years at the Undergraduate Council, he may forever be identified with the 90 pages of by-laws he unloaded on a shocked council at the end of his freshman year. (One provision stated, "The term 'shall,' with respect to persons shall entail a...
What Harvard couldn't control, was the naturalprocess of our growth outside of achievement. Itprovided stimulants almost at random; the coursecatalog, posters announcing speeches and events,and assigned rooming groups freshman year wereamong Harvard's provision of organizedopportunity. But no one could influence whoultimately became our confidants, what we saw...