Word: provisos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...gripe, he decided, they should do it publicly on the site. "I wanted to reinforce the notion that if you're going to bring a complaint about someone, do it out in the open," says Omidyar. "You can't come running to Daddy." He had one other proviso: if traders are going to complain about people they don't like, they should be willing to say something nice about people they...
...dues be tied to legislation that would withhold money to any organizations that lobby foreign governments on abortion. Though they have watered down their antiabortion language, House G.O.P. leaders Tom DeLay and Dick Armey have also promised Smith that payment of the arrears will remain linked to his proviso. That's unacceptable to the White House and its supporters. Massachusetts Senator John Kerry is blunt: "Petty, partisan, ideological, picayune politics are undermining the national-security interests of our country...
...instance, he noted that the "MedicalCircumstances" proviso has never been used, butsaid its leverage is useful in encouragingstudents with serious mental illnesses to pursueappropriate action...
Shalit longs for all sorts of corseted restraints. She wants policemen to stop her if she smooches in public, and society to "young lady" her, as in, "Young lady, what are you doing?" But do grown women really want to be young ladied? Karen Lehrman, author of The Lipstick Proviso, agrees that women want courting and less coarseness, but not a staid modesty. "I think a better word is elegance," she says, pointing to Lauren Bacall and Grace Kelly in their subtle but steely glory. Now there's something worth returning...
...business school applicants each year, the GMAT includes two 30-min. essays that test takers type straight into a computer. In the past, those essays were graded on a six-point scale by two readers. This month, the computer will replace one of the readers--with the proviso that a second reader will be consulted if the computer and human-reader scores differ by more than a point...