Word: provisos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
...years ago, such a proviso might have raised cries of a Western plot against the growth of colored races. Hunger's pressures have helped to calm that fallacious fear. Even in the most unlikely region, Roman Catholic South America, resistance to birth control has dwindled. "Religion is getting out of the way;" says University of Chicago Economist Theodore W. Schultz...
While the appropriation cut will seriously endanger any such plan, there is yet another damaging feature of the subcommittee's action--the proviso that prevents rent supplement funds from going to communities lacking community development projects. This proviso, in effect, will make the envisioned suburban dispersion impossible or ineffective. Suburban communities could decide against long-range planning altogether or determine locations of projects which would be rent-subsidized, thus creating new ghettos...
Optimism & Caution. Neither Fairbank nor Columbia Political Scientist A. Doak Barnett would accept the Fulbright line that the war in Viet Nam would lead to full-scale hostilities with China, with the proviso-which the Administration has repeatedly endorsed-that the U.S. does not intend to destroy what the Chinese consider a buffer regime in North Viet Nam. Both, however, cautioned against bombing Hanoi or Haiphong. Indeed, Administration experts whose policies embody the same reservations advanced by Fairbank and Barnett, expressed mystification last week at Fulbright's recent assertion that "certain China experts in our Government think the Chinese...