Word: provisos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...community, to protect passage to Eilat. Defense Minister Moshe Dayan will fight for mutual withdrawal of both Israel and Egypt from the banks of the Suez Canal. Should the Israelis consent to a unilateral withdrawal of ten to twelve miles from the canal, however, they may insist on a proviso that if one Egyptian soldier crosses the canal, it would constitute a casus belli...
...thepolitical ins and outs of Cambridge. Monday night when Philip Cronin '53, Cambridge City Solicitor, presented a watered down version of the committee agreement hammered out Friday between the blacks and the city manager, she interposed calmly, and Cronin reworded the order to be more specific, including a proviso that the blacks would be involved in the selection of a police commissioner, if that post is created...
...which prohibits the recruitment of a college player until his class graduates; in Haywood's case, that would be June 1971. Explaining that Haywood was the sole means of support for his mother and nine younger brothers and sisters, the Rockets claimed that he qualified for an A.B.A. proviso waiving the four-year rule for "hardship cases." The league, locked in a bitter recruiting war with the N.B.A. (which has no such proviso), agreed...
Largely the concept of the White House's resident liberal, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, FAP would provide a guaranteed minimum income of $1,600 annually to every welfare family of four. It would eliminate the harsh proviso of many state laws that cuts off aid to a mother and her children if the father returns to live with them. The program would initially add an estimated 12 million poor people to welfare rolls, which now carry 11.6 million. But through provisions for day-care centers for the children of working mothers and requirements that able-bodied recipients must either work...
...Frost gave it, but finding another writer even more idolatrous, he awarded him the exclusive rights-leaving the publisher with two authors for one book. He was probably most heartless to an admiring young poet, Raymond Holden. In 1919, he offered Holden half his Franconia, N.H., property, with the proviso that Holden must buy the rest if Frost should ever move. Unknown to Holden, Frost was already planning to live in Vermont. "I had not only contributed to his desire to leave, but had also given him the means of doing it," Holden sadly concluded...