Word: provisos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...MEDICINE). True, she had not detected the lump in her breast by self-examination, which might have prevented a delay of days or weeks. But when a lump was found in her routine checkup at Bethesda Naval Medical Center, she consented to immediate exploratory surgery, with the all-important proviso that if malignancy was detected, the doctors could remove the breast...
Italy has had to borrow so heavily to support the lira that annual interest runs to $700 million. Last March the International Monetary Fund made another loan of $1.2 billion, but only on the proviso that Italy put its economic house in order by reducing deficits, limiting spending, increasing taxes and holding down credit expansion...
could only set off greater action against him and the legally established process he represented, when it was read by people already starting to implement his earlier proviso...
...youth cult. In Last Rights she argues for allowing the aging to liquidate themselves, to arrange their own end when they judge death preferable to life. At the conclusion of her essay, Miss Mannes, now in her middle 60s, presents her own legal document of instructions, including the proviso: "I do not wish to survive a stroke that impairs my ability to speak or move, nor any accident or disease resulting in vision too impaired to see or read, or in total deafness. If age and illness deny me these, I choose death...
...been demonstrated beyond doubt. The college is expanding at double the projected rate of 75 students per year because forced commuters and transfer students have been carelessly admitted into the housing pool. Only recently have the admissions committees been challenged for their practice of admitting extra applicants with the proviso that they live off campus and for admitting transfer students without any regard for overcrowding. A $3-million undergraduate dormitory is being constructed in the Yard where Hunt Hall once stood. The trend toward leave-taking has reversed, and off-campus quotas are not being filled...