Word: provisionally
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The move to emphasize public service within the curriculum, including a provision for active service components in some classes, is a bold and positive step, as is the proposed opportunity to earn honors recognition within academic concentrations without traditional Theses. We also support a reorganization of the academic calendar and...
The Massachusetts legislature recently stripped a provision declaring the state’s support for stem cell research from an economic stimulus bill passed last fall. Pro-life groups and lobbyists for the Catholic Church engineered the move—falsely equating therapeutic cloning with abortion.
At the time, Ellwood, who already had left the administration, publicly criticized the compromise provision, calling it “welfare reform in name only” and urging Clinton to veto the bill.
Sure, it’s better to give tax cuts to people who can use them than to the ultra-rich. But our bipartisan mania for tax-slashing has real costs. In order to rein in the deficit and cut taxes simultaneously, Kerry is proposing a total spending cap on...
The decision by the Pentagon to swell the U.S. troop contingent in Iraq to 135,000 and make provision for more underscored the extent to which April's twin insurgent flare-ups had stretched the Coalition's combat capability. Allies willing to commit new troops are increasingly scarce, while U.S...