Word: waiver
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...system, called "Travelvision" for showing movies and television on planes, ships, buses and trains, and within two months will install the first system in a U.S. airline. Flexer's Inflight has 35 systems working aloft for TWA, another four for Pakistan International Airlines; it has also obtained a waiver of its exclusive TWA contract so that it can service noncompeting routes, is presently negotiating with one international and four domestic lines...
When he opened the case, the presiding judge indicated that he would dismiss charges if no civil action, such as contention of false charges, was brought by the defendants. Francis and Buckholder refused the waiver, because, Francis said, this would "encourage policemen to continue false arrests...
...roll-call vote, the Council waived a provision in state law that requires it to mail notices of a referendum to all registered voters at least seven days before an election. The waiver, which followed a brief hearing, spared the City the problem of finding $5000 and enough clerical help to dispatch nearly 47,000 pieces of first-class mail...
Although neither Walter J. Sullivan nor Alfred E. Vellucci explained his opposition to the waiver, both councillors apparently doubted Thomas J. Hartnett, executive secretary of the Board of Election Commissioners, who said most people simply ingored official mail. Hartnett told the Council he planned to publicize the referendum through posters and newspaper advertisements...
...past it, sparked a labor dispute by insisting that a girl's wings should not be clipped because of age. "Do I look like an old bag?" asked a pert 35-year-old who, like 70 other over-32 American stewardesses, is still flying under a waiver because she joined American before it established its grounding policy in 1953. The stewardesses' protest was no mere girlish outburst: they also seek higher wages and fewer hours in the new contract that the Transport Workers Union is now negotiating for them with American. American argues that it guarantees ground jobs...