Word: provisos
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Tito also began taking whatever aid he could get, including that offered by the West, but always with the proviso that no strings be attached. This foreshadowed the new foreign policy of nonalignment -normal relations with the two superpowers, alliance with neither-that he developed further during the 1950s. With the backing of India's Nehru, Egypt's Nasser and Indonesia's Sukarno, the Nonaligned Movement was formally inaugurated in Belgrade...
...such Western-style rights as freedom of the press and political parties. It also endorses equal rights ("There is no distinction on grounds of race, color, language or creed. Men and women have equality before the law"). Yet in each case there is a variation of an important proviso: these freedoms will operate only if "Islamic principles of the Republic are not flouted." As one Tehran resident acerbically put it, "The new charter creates the world's only 20th century theocratic nation...
Their friendship would continue for 30 years and involve more than 3,300 letters 2,300 of them to Hick in Eleanor Roosevelt's scrawling hand. The letters, at Hickok's direction, ended up in the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library with the proviso that they would not be opened until ten years after her death, which occurred in 1968. Many of them are included in The Life of Lorena Hickok, a biography by Doris Faber to be published by William Morrow & Co. in February. As a whole, they suggest an intimate relationship never previously considered...
...first, ETS hinted it would boycott New York, forcing students to travel to Connecticutt or New Jersey for the exams. But after considering the economic effects of such a move, ETS decided to stay in the state, with the proviso that prices may increase and service...
...computer leasing firm. The business worked this way: Surety bought computers from manufacturers. It financed the purchases with multimillion-dollar loans from banks, using the computers themselves as collateral. Then Surety leased the computers to corporations or government agencies. Typically, the leasing contract is for seven years, with the proviso that the customer can break it after three or four years. Before 1974 the banks were unwilling to make loans for more than four years. They feared that giant IBM might roll out new models that would make the leased computers obsolete. Thus the growth of the leasing firms...