Word: provisos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lining Up. Other agencies are lining up for exemptions from the manpower-reduction proviso. The Federal Aviation Administration has won Senate permission to add several thousand more badly needed air-traffic controllers at the nation's airports. More offices, such as the Veterans Administration and the Social Security Administration, will also make the case that they cannot handle their expanding workload with a 1966-force level...
Following sterling's devaluation in November, the International Monetary Fund arranged a $1.4 billion line of credit for Britain-with the proviso that the money could be used only if Prime Minister Harold Wilson's government took drastic measures to cure the country's chronic balance of payments problem. When Britain was allowed to go ahead and tap that credit last month, it meant that the IMF was reasonably satisfied with the way in which Britain has pulled up its socks, economically speaking. Last week London received still another vote of confidence from international moneymen: central bankers...
...Cambridge Corporation, a non-profit organization, stepped in as intermediary between the neighborhood and Polaroid. The company struck a compromise and sold the lot at less than cost to the Corporation, who made the proviso that COBI buy the lot within four years...
Tacked onto the 10% tax-surcharge legislation that sailed through the Senate last week was a quiet proviso that could become the first shot in an economically devastating trade war between the U.S. and most of its close allies...
...past, the Administration has demanded advance evidence from Hanoi that it would not, in fact, exploit the U.S. move. This proviso has now been dropped. Instead, Johnson urged Britain and the Soviet Union, co-chairmen of the 1954 Geneva Conference that ended the Indochina war, to do all within their power to move Hanoi toward talks. He announced that Roving Ambassador Averell Harriman and Llewellyn Thompson, Ambassador to Moscow, would be available to go to Geneva or any other suitable locale to talk peace. He urged Ho Chi Minh to respond positively...