Word: provisos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...million was intended as a payoff for the Administration's cooperation in preventing Jimmy Hoffa from wresting the union presidency from Frank Fitzsimmons, a staunch Nixon supporter. Nixon had commuted Hoffa's 13-year prison sentence for jury tampering and mail fraud in December 1971, with the proviso that he have nothing to do with running the union until March 1980, when his sentence would have expired. But Hoffa persisted in trying to regain his old power in the union. On July 30, 1975, he vanished from outside Detroit and was presumably executed by the underworld...
...some Soviet citizens, one proviso of the Brezhnev constitution makes a mockery of the flowery guarantees of individual liberties. It reads: "Exercise by citizens of rights and freedoms must not injure the interests of society and the state, and the rights of other citizens." Obviously, this statement gives legal sanction for the KGB to proceed, without having to manufacture pretexts, against dissidents exercising the right of free speech, assembly or religion...
...students than the RUS dinner would. RUS dinners have been held many times in the past, and the issue of inconvenience and University policy for Moors Hall residents has never been raised apparently because Epps has chosen to classify that facility as a private dining hall. Herlihy's proviso that men be permitted in the dining hall, and past Moors policy that men be allowed to stay if they arrive in the dining room, make it unlikely that any Mather resident who really found it necessary to eat at that particular time period would have been prohibited from doing...
...land for the park was sold to the city in the 1920s and 1930s by the estate of former Texas Governor James S. Hogg. There was one proviso: if the land was ever used for other than "park purposes," it would revert to the estate. To sidestep that restriction, the Governor's daughter, Ima Hogg, signed over the estate's drilling rights shortly before her death last year to an old friend, George R. Brown, president of Brownco Inc., a Houston-based drilling company...
...ground worth $50-$60 million, Houston would thus benefit from a large windfall. As Brownco and the city saw it, the exploratory wells could be drilled on a slant from the park's maintenance area without appreciable danger to flora and fauna. As for the proviso forbidding commercial development, the city's lawyers were satisfied that since a handsome slice of revenues from any producing well would be earmarked for park improvements, this would nicely satisfy the test that the land be used for "park purposes...