Word: provisos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with murder inthe Mar. 20 nerve gas attack on Tokyo subways. The bearded, 40-year-old guru was meditating alone in a hidden, steel-fortified room at the Aum Shinri Kyo cult's rural compound beneath Mount Fuji when police broke in last night. He surrendered peacefully, with one proviso: "Don't touch me," investigators said he told police doctors. "I don't even let my followers touch...
...from the communist threat for Asia to develop its present independence and booming free-market prosperity? The argument on that is still ongoing. If the question is ever resolved, it will be done by historians, not by today's politicians and citizens. And the answer will come with a proviso: it will offer no guide to the future...
...sleep and food, and placing them in a narrow cell called "the cage." Beating is prohibited, though occasional slaps to the face are not. Detainees belonging to Hamas who are suspected of involvement in violence are now being subjected to such pressure, and the more aggressive "ticking-bomb" proviso will also be applied more liberally...
...Hamas, a "ticking bomb" proviso and shoot-to-kill threats...
...moral equivalent of straights. A Honolulu Advertiser poll found two-thirds of respondents opposed to same-sex marriage. Legislators quashed the idea by more than 3 to 1 and referred it to a study commission, a majority of whose 11 members must belong to specified religious groups -- a proviso that many observers say ensures a negative outcome...