Word: provisos
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...French Communists have since moved closer to Moscow on the missile issue. During a visit to the Kremlin two weeks ago, Marchais joined Soviet President Yuri Andropov in calling for "the balanced reduction of nuclear forces." They added the proviso that all missiles systems be "taken into consideration," a clear reference to Moscow's demand that France's independent nuclear arsenal be counted in Geneva. The Soviets, it appears, had successfully enlisted Marchais in their propaganda offensive...
...subsidized in any way by foreign governments or influenced by anything other than free-market forces. "For the first offense," the bill says, the perpetrator shall have his right hand severed at the wrist." This law, Kirkland implies, would quickly eliminate the U.S. import problem. He offers an added proviso: "Any person ... apprehended in the act of making a free-trade speech to the Council on Foreign Relations ... or to any other such forum shall have his tongue extracted by heated tongs...
...months a requirement that banks withhold taxes on dividends and interest. This proposal, advanced by Democratic Senator John Melcher of Montana, was a modified version of an effort to repeal the withholding requirement outright. The week before, Wisconsin's Republican Senator Robert W. Kasten tacked the repeal proviso on to the Senate's $5.1 billion jobs bill and got trounced...
...final step in a grim scenario that had been played out in Washington (the Star) and Philadelphia (the Bulletin), and that was soon to be repeated in Cleveland (the Press). Instead, the Tribune Co. reversed field and proclaimed it would keep operating indefinitely, but with a daunting proviso: the city's traditionally intransigent news paper unions, which had watched six papers die since 1950, would have to endorse a prompt elimination of about 1,300 of the paper's 5,000 jobs. Warned William Kennedy, president of the pressmen's union: "It may not be worth...
...Seabed Authority, a potentially burdensome new international bureaucracy over which the U.S. would have little influence. He opposed the production controls, the mandatory sale of technology, and private firms' having to compete with an enterprise controlled by the treaty's signers. Reagan was displeased by a proviso that some of the U.N. enterprises' profits, intended for distribution to the Third World, could end up in the hands of a terrorism-tainted group like the P.L.O. He also opposed a rule that said the pact could be amended, possibly against America's wishes, by a two-thirds...