Word: provisos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...meals if attending a legislative conference, visiting a company plant or taking part in a celebrity golf or tennis tournament. A spouse or an aide can go along; children somehow slip in. Common Cause found that in 1987 Congressmen took eleven years' worth of free vacations courtesy of this proviso...
...policy of the outgoing Administration was to support the concept of an international conference provided -- big proviso -- it was properly structured and provided its purpose was to lead to direct negotiations between the parties. I see no reason why we would depart from the policy with those provisos. We don't oppose categorically a Soviet role. But we do think it's important that any such role be a constructive one, and we would like to see them demonstrate this through action, not just words. One way would be to restore full diplomatic relations with Israel, to continue to permit...
Among the measures supported by insurance firms is Proposition 104, which would institute no-fault coverage. Another proviso of the initiative: for the portion of any award over $100,000, a lawyer could charge no more than 15%. In response, the state's trial lawyers have banded together to push their own plan, Proposition 100. It rejects limits on legal fees and mandates changes in the law that would result in 15% lower insurance rates...
...always been particularly zealous in enforcing this proviso, so Murdoch presumably expected the Government to continue to bend the rules in his favor. But the liberal Kennedy (often referred to in Murdoch's Boston Herald as "the Fat Boy") sneaked a clause requiring Murdoch to sell either station or paper into a long congressional appropriations bill. President Reagan seems to have skipped reading the clause when signing the bill into law. In Boston Murdoch chose to sell the station and keep the paper, where he can continue to taunt Teddy. But in New York City he needs the station...
Officer Robert Ames, the association's president, said all of the other city unions had accepted a contract granting a uniform pay raise for all city employees, with the proviso that if any union was given a higher raise, the others could reopen negotiations over wages...