Word: provisos
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...land for the park was sold to the city in the 1920s and 1930s by the estate of former Texas Governor James S. Hogg. There was one proviso: if the land was ever used for other than "park purposes," it would revert to the estate. To sidestep that restriction, the Governor's daughter, Ima Hogg, signed over the estate's drilling rights shortly before her death last year to an old friend, George R. Brown, president of Brownco Inc., a Houston-based drilling company...
...administration to a receivership, members suggested that Kilbridge cannot provide continued intellectual leadership and pointed to the need for a new Dean to bring the School to excellence. One member said that the logical head "could possibly be" an architect but that an architect should be hired with the proviso that he can build. Another remarked that an administrative, non-professional Dean could be considered if more powerful department chairmen could be found. Several members saw that the academic qualifications of a Dean are secondary to the need to find someone to stimulate the sense of purpose and mission which...
Civilian Experts. The Geneva accord, which will remain in force for the next three years, was unquestionably an American diplomatic triumph; but it involved an unprecedented American commitment to help maintain peace in the Middle East. The most widely debated proviso of the agreement is an article stipulating that the U.S. will send up to 200 civilian electronics experts to maintain surveillance stations in Sinai that will monitor troop and aircraft movements and report truce violations. Israel refused to ratify the pact without U.S. surveillance. Although not explicitly part of the deal, $2.3 billion in military aid for Israel...
...contract's proviso for an 18 per cent pay raise means that coal miners' pay raises are now finally in line with those of other major unions--40 years too late. But the raise does little for the 80,000 pensioners who could not vote on the contract and who will not benefit from pensions which were fattened for men retiring after 1976. These men are living on $150 a month; many are stricken with black lung; all deserve better pensions and medical benefits...
Earlier this month a delegation led by Denis Hamilton, editor in chief of the Tunes Newspapers, Ltd., and Hetherington of the Guardian visited Employment Secretary Michael Foot. Their purpose: to ensure that editors stay free of the closed-shop proviso. Foot, a veteran Labor leftist, former journalist and member of the N.U.J., was unmoved...