Word: provisos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...House bill also contains a proviso that would halt Watt's tentative plan to sell the oil and gas rights to four oceanic basins off the northern California coast. The tracts are in the middle of rich commercial fishing grounds and are home to several species of threatened marine life. The U.S. Geological Survey estimates that the basins contain only about 300 million bbl. of crude, or roughly twelve days' worth of the nation's oil needs. Environmentalists have been joined in the battle to prevent sale by some conservative Republicans, who feel that the auction would...
...members of minority groups. Second, in all job searches, efforts should be made to identify candidates from these groups by advertising and making special inquiries. Finally, in hiring decisions the individual selected should be that person who is thought best qualified to perform the job, "subject only to the proviso that minority candidates should be chosen if their qualifications are equal to those of the other leading contenders...
...academics, residential, student services, and executive. If delegates were elected directly to particular committees, each House would have only one delegate on each committee. If delegates were allowed to choose their berths after election, a House might have several delegates on one committee and none on another--unless a proviso to the contrary were attached to election rules. Each committee would have about 15 members, and the entire structure would include 76 delegates, including six voting minority representatives (in the current assembly, the minority delegates are from the Asian American Association, the Black Students Association, the Native American Students, LaOrganizacion...
...dining hall workers, knows too well the feeling of being tugged two ways. As a negotiator at last spring's contract sessions, he recognized the need to get his constituency what it wanted--a wage increase in an inflationary era. But he watched in dismay as Harvard attached a proviso to its three-year deal calling for successive 10-, 9- and 8-per-cent raises. The University said it would contract out the Harkness dining hall at the Law School. To its credit, Harvard assured that none of the Harkness employees were laid off. But Walden understood when Harkness workers...
...Recall order in the case of layoffs. The School Committee reportedly agreed to teachers' demand for recall by seniority, with the proviso that a separate list be drawn up for minority teachers to insure affirmative action quotas...