Word: proviso
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...President's vision limited to the U.S. In yet another message, Johnson revealed that the U.S. was sending 2,000,000 tons of grain to drought-stricken India, asked Congress to approve an additional allocation of grain "not to exceed 3,000,000 tons" and with the proviso that "it is appropriately matched by other countries." Though that carefully limited proposal caused some consternation in New Delhi, the President made eloquently clear the U.S.'s commitment to a "continuing world campaign against hunger...
Pacifying Proviso...
...committee favored dealing with graduate education by individual departments. Though it voted to deal with undergraduate education interdepartmentally, the committee added that its proposals would take the form of suggestions. This proviso was apparently intended to allay Faculty fears that the teaching fellows might try to dictate the form and content of undergraduate courses...
...return the paintings to Germany required a special act of Congress last September, but no proviso was made for Ernst, who now hopes to recoup something eventually from the Bonn government. But even when the paintings leave the National Gallery next month, they will still not be safely home. Weimar lies in East Germany, so Congress has handed Bonn the responsibility of ultimately returning them to the museum from which, almost half a century ago, they were taken...
Ford had suggested that students' grades in their fifth course should be recorded, with the proviso that a poor grade wouldn't lower their rank in class...