Word: provisos
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...instance, he noted that the "MedicalCircumstances" proviso has never been used, butsaid its leverage is useful in encouragingstudents with serious mental illnesses to pursueappropriate action...
Shalit longs for all sorts of corseted restraints. She wants policemen to stop her if she smooches in public, and society to "young lady" her, as in, "Young lady, what are you doing?" But do grown women really want to be young ladied? Karen Lehrman, author of The Lipstick Proviso, agrees that women want courting and less coarseness, but not a staid modesty. "I think a better word is elegance," she says, pointing to Lauren Bacall and Grace Kelly in their subtle but steely glory. Now there's something worth returning...
...business school applicants each year, the GMAT includes two 30-min. essays that test takers type straight into a computer. In the past, those essays were graded on a six-point scale by two readers. This month, the computer will replace one of the readers--with the proviso that a second reader will be consulted if the computer and human-reader scores differ by more than a point...
McShea says she did not know about UHS's policyon abortion nor its proviso for refunds until sheread Choi's opinion piece published in The Crimsonlast Friday, "UHS's Silence on Abortion...
Thompson says she believes UHS's abortionsubsidy and its proviso offering refunds to thosewho are anti-abortion provides students with abalance...