Word: provisos
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...Cambridge Corporation, a non-profit organization, stepped in as intermediary between the neighborhood and Polaroid. The company struck a compromise and sold the lot at less than cost to the Corporation, who made the proviso that COBI buy the lot within four years...
Tacked onto the 10% tax-surcharge legislation that sailed through the Senate last week was a quiet proviso that could become the first shot in an economically devastating trade war between the U.S. and most of its close allies...
...past, the Administration has demanded advance evidence from Hanoi that it would not, in fact, exploit the U.S. move. This proviso has now been dropped. Instead, Johnson urged Britain and the Soviet Union, co-chairmen of the 1954 Geneva Conference that ended the Indochina war, to do all within their power to move Hanoi toward talks. He announced that Roving Ambassador Averell Harriman and Llewellyn Thompson, Ambassador to Moscow, would be available to go to Geneva or any other suitable locale to talk peace. He urged Ho Chi Minh to respond positively...
...requires, among other things, that members and Senate employees file statements of their financial holdings with the U.S. Comptroller General (TIME, March 22). The lists could be opened only after a majority vote of the six-man committee on Standards and Conduct. But under the Clark-Case proviso, Senators would have to dis close publicly their income and assets, along with those of their families...
Other clashes seemed to be simpler cases of racial antagonism. The Springfield fight followed heckling by white students of Negro youths seeking service at a nearby cafe. In the Chicago suburb of Maywood, the failure of a student selection committee at Proviso East High to nominate a single Negro girl for homecoming queen set off a protest rally in which some 500 youths hurled bottles at police...