Word: proviso
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...daily translations of foreign press dispatches are restricted, the papers were official secrets. Wichser's treatment, however, drew a protest from the U.S. State Department over China's "excessively literal" interpretation of the consular convention covering U.S. citizens in China. Shortly thereafter, Wichser was released on the proviso that she depart the country within 48 hours. She did, leaving behind the Chinese economics student she had hoped to marry, as well as the unidentified Chinese who had given her the papers, all of whom were likely to be punished...
...positive approach of examining how the single leader of a future reunited church might function. The Anglicans agreed that the Bishop of Rome could have jurisdiction to intervene in any part of the church under certain circumstances, and could issue infallible teachings on his own, with the proviso that they would later need to be received and recognized by the church. If anything, this accord was more unsettling for Anglicans than for the Vatican...
...That is already happening. Senate Finance Chairman Robert Dole of Kansas announced last week that his Democratic counterpart in the House, Dan Rostenkowski of Illinois, had agreed to support legislation to end the tax leasing proviso that allows money-losing companies to sell their depreciation credits to profitable firms. Leasing would cost the Treasury about $27 billion over five years, and is virtually certain to be repealed...
...important to understand that when men are drafted in peacetime, it is to train them to be prepared to defend their homes in the event of a war; nothing more. I believe that most Americans do not object to this concept. Subsequently, any future draft law should have a proviso specifically stating that draftees will not be assigned to duty outside the continental U.S. unless the Congress declares that a state of war exists...
...House bill also contains a proviso that would halt Watt's tentative plan to sell the oil and gas rights to four oceanic basins off the northern California coast. The tracts are in the middle of rich commercial fishing grounds and are home to several species of threatened marine life. The U.S. Geological Survey estimates that the basins contain only about 300 million bbl. of crude, or roughly twelve days' worth of the nation's oil needs. Environmentalists have been joined in the battle to prevent sale by some conservative Republicans, who feel that the auction would...