Word: provisos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...approve of the U.S. move, while France and sometime Iraqi ally Russia deplore the missile strikes. The most telling effect of international disapproval is the hold up in Iraq's return to the world oil market. The U.N. was on the verge of approving Iraqi oil sales, with the proviso that the proceeds be used for food supplies. Now, the Iraqi government will lose these new resources until it backs down. "Why would Iraq march on the Kurds, when the obvious consequence is losing the oil sales," asks TIME's Johanna McGeary. "Perhaps Saddam is not as eager to have...
...which the Council has elected many talented and diligent student representatives. To underscore the tone of this Council, I'd like to highlight an amendment the Council attached to its resolution for the First-Year Formal (now just over a month away!). Representative Brady S. Case '97 introduced a proviso allocating free tickets to the Formal for first-years with severe financial constraints...
...Healthcare contract he found the following: "Physicians shall agree not to take any action or make any communication which undermines or could undermine the confidence of enrollees, potential enrollees, their employers, their unions, or the public in U.S. Healthcare or the quality of U.S. Healthcare coverage." A further proviso stipulated that "physicians shall keep the Proprietary Information and this Agreement strictly confidential." Himmelstein says he found the whole restriction "so obnoxious I crossed it out" before signing. The emended contract was accepted without complaint...
...empted an expected bidding war by securing the broadcasting rights to the 2000 Summer and 2002 Winter Olympic Games for a combined $1.27 billion. The offer, which carried a weekend deadline and a proviso forbidding solicitation of counterbids, set a record for Olympic broadcasting...
...nerve gas attackon Tokyo subways. They also took 14 of his followers into custody. The bearded, 40-year-old guru was meditating alone in a hidden, steel-fortified room at theAum Shinri Kyo cult'srural compound beneath Mount Fuji when police broke in. He surrendered peacefully, with one proviso: "Don't touch me," investigators said he told police doctors. "I don't even let my followers touch me." The Japanese Cabinet held an emergency meeting at dawn as tens of thousands of chemical warfare and regular troops went on alert, bracing for possible retaliatory gas attacks from cult members...