Word: provisos
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After I read the flier, I couldn't recall every reading about either the abortion subsidy or the rebate option for conscientious objectors in any of the material I received year after year from UHS. Strange, I thought; I must have overlooked some prominent proviso or conspicuous caveat. So I went and pored over the materials UHS sent me this year. I found the information, and the reason I had never known...
...elective abortion proviso is even more inconspicuous now than it was last year, when it was placed under an "Abortion" heading within a "Women's Health/Contraception" section (a title which, I might add, does not imply elective abortions). The guide should be fixed to give fair notice to all Harvard students that UHS does have an abortion policy that may involve the use of student fees...
This crisis ultimately is not about exchange rates, though. The IMF has been pumping billions into Russia on the proviso that much needed reforms will be rammed through. Moscow asked for even more money a few days before devaluing, but the IMF finally said no. Russia now must figure out how to collect taxes more aggressively from corporations, banks and individuals. The government cannot survive by taking in less revenue than it expects and trying to balance the budget by slashing spending. If it follows that course, millions of unpaid teachers, soldiers and government employees will never get the months...
...Meanwhile, Judge Garland Burrell Jr., impatient with the delays in the trial, ruled today that Kaczynski would not be allowed to represent himself. The defendant, stuck with his original lawyers, was out of options. The government forced him to drop the sticking point of the earlier deal: A proviso that if evidence from his Montana cabin was thrown out on appeal, Kaczynski could void the deal and go back to trial...
...delegates thanked Mr. Morris for his work and proceeded to debate the terms he outlined. While most of the terms were deemed acceptable, the delegates unanimoufly felt that the final proviso would subject the colonies to an outrageously exorbitant and punitively expensive program of oral hygiene, and was therefore onerous and a deal breaker. Authorization was then given for Congress to receive the document being prepared by Messrs. Jefferson, Adams and Franklin, and word was sent to Genl. Washington to mufter the troops...