Word: provisos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Since then he has not mentioned that possible proviso, preferring to point out that his attitude on draft evasion was shared by Presidents Lincoln, Coolidge and Truman, all of whom granted amnesty following previous wars...
...estate of anyone except a member of his immediate family. If he has time, a judge may engage in certain nonjudicial activities that do not give even "the appearance of impropriety," but he must publicly reveal the amount of money he is paid-and who paid it. That proviso would cover the $20,000 fee paid to Fortas by the Wolfson Foundation, which led to his resignation after the arrangement was revealed by LIFE...
Confessed Rapist-Murderer Robert Eugene Watson deserved to be executed, said Maryland Judge George B. Rasin. But since such a sentence has become "an exercise in futility," Rasin gave the defendant a life term-and then tacked on an extraordinary proviso. Watson will be eligible for parole in 15 years, but whenever he is released, said the judge, he must pay 40% of his income for the rest of his life to the two sons of the housewife he killed...
...Later expeditions established Spain's claim to them. Because there is no water on the islands, they were usually bypassed. In 1856, however, the U.S. passed the Guano Islands Act, which enabled it to pre-empt any unclaimed islands on which bird droppings or guano abounded. Under that proviso, Washington claimed Great and Little Swan...
...teams from both leagues complained that Denver had violated the "four-year rule," which prohibits the recruitment of a college player until after his class graduates. The Rockets, explaining that Haywood was the sole means of support for his mother and nine younger brothers and sisters, cited a league proviso exempting "hardship cases." Happy to deny the N.B.A. another star, the A.B.A. went along. This season Haywood had a contract dispute with the Rockets and jumped to the N.B.A.'s Seattle SuperSonics for $1,500,000. The N.B.A.'s Chicago Bulls, among seven others, immediately cried "illegal player...