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Word: provisionally (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Interpreted literally, Title VII prevents firms from considering race as a factor in hiring. Created to protect minorities from discrimination, this provision of the Civil Rights Act has therefore not been invoked against affirmative action programs that favor minorities. Affirmative action supporters feared that with political tides in the United...

Author: By David F. Browne, | Title: Problems in Piscataway | 12/9/1997 | See Source »

The board voted to strike a provision in its constitution which mandated that one of the board's co-chair be female.

Author: By Marc J. Ambinder, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Summer Selected as New Co-Chair of BGLTSA | 12/9/1997 | See Source »

But the council's Subcommittee on Universal Keycard Access, which issued the recommendation, said it also wants to "ensure that there are two locked doors between one's room and the outside world"--a provision that may be impossible because of the houses' for instance, access to the main door...

Author: By Barbara E. Martinez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Council President Will Not Run For Re-Election | 11/24/1997 | See Source »

Representatives at the Harvard International Office (HIO) fear that an oft-overlooked provision of the bill could also significantly change the relationship between colleges and international students.

Author: By Marc J.ambinder, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: New Laws Complicate Foreign Students' Lives | 11/24/1997 | See Source »

For those who killed health-insurance reform, however, drive-by mastectomies are not efficient enough. The Health Insurance Association of America (which spent $10 million in 1993 on ads featuring hyperyuppies Harry and Louise, who spent their evenings worrying over the Health Security Act), along with an amalgam of industry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ANOTHER DOSE OF HARRY AND LOUISE | 11/24/1997 | See Source »

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