Word: provisionally
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Conferees rejected a Senate provision imposing sharp new limits on appeals that state prisoners--particularly awaiting execution--can file in federal court in favor of a tough but less restrictive version passed by the House.
Last week a federal appeals court set the stage for that collision when it upheld most of Pennsylvania's law, putting that statute first in line for possible review by the high court. The lower court approved provisions of the law requiring parental consent for minors and a 24-hour...
An even worse scandal, miners say, is a federal law that makes it nearly impossible for miners with black lung to collect disability payments. Congress drastically tightened up on such compensation in 1981 in response to coal- industry pressure and fraud among miners claiming benefits. In the past, miners with...
The negotiators became bogged down Thursday night over Republican objections to a Democrat proposal to use about $1 billion in Defense Department funds for food and medical aid to the Soviet Union. The aid provision was included in the final bill.
Wu Wen-shuo, a Taiwanese student, will be finishing medical school next year at UCLA. After that, he would like to remain in the U.S. So would many foreign residents. But Wu has an edge: cash, and lots of it. Under one provision of the sweeping new immigration law that...