Word: provisos
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...teams from both leagues complained that Denver had violated the "four-year rule," which prohibits the recruitment of a college player until after his class graduates. The Rockets, explaining that Haywood was the sole means of support for his mother and nine younger brothers and sisters, cited a league proviso exempting "hardship cases." Happy to deny the N.B.A. another star, the A.B.A. went along. This season Haywood had a contract dispute with the Rockets and jumped to the N.B.A.'s Seattle SuperSonics for $1,500,000. The N.B.A.'s Chicago Bulls, among seven others, immediately cried "illegal player...
...community, to protect passage to Eilat. Defense Minister Moshe Dayan will fight for mutual withdrawal of both Israel and Egypt from the banks of the Suez Canal. Should the Israelis consent to a unilateral withdrawal of ten to twelve miles from the canal, however, they may insist on a proviso that if one Egyptian soldier crosses the canal, it would constitute a casus belli...
...thepolitical ins and outs of Cambridge. Monday night when Philip Cronin '53, Cambridge City Solicitor, presented a watered down version of the committee agreement hammered out Friday between the blacks and the city manager, she interposed calmly, and Cronin reworded the order to be more specific, including a proviso that the blacks would be involved in the selection of a police commissioner, if that post is created...
...which prohibits the recruitment of a college player until his class graduates; in Haywood's case, that would be June 1971. Explaining that Haywood was the sole means of support for his mother and nine younger brothers and sisters, the Rockets claimed that he qualified for an A.B.A. proviso waiving the four-year rule for "hardship cases." The league, locked in a bitter recruiting war with the N.B.A. (which has no such proviso), agreed...
Largely the concept of the White House's resident liberal, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, FAP would provide a guaranteed minimum income of $1,600 annually to every welfare family of four. It would eliminate the harsh proviso of many state laws that cuts off aid to a mother and her children if the father returns to live with them. The program would initially add an estimated 12 million poor people to welfare rolls, which now carry 11.6 million. But through provisions for day-care centers for the children of working mothers and requirements that able-bodied recipients must either work...