Word: waiver
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...designed to generate more paper: local schools are required to send reams of forms to district offices before they can fix a broken window, change the school menu, take a class on a field trip or buy new textbooks. To make real innovations, Chan found herself perpetually fighting for waivers. In 1992, when California enacted a charter-school law, Chan was one of the first to apply. "We wanted the waiver of all waivers," she explains. "The charter takes the handcuffs off the principal, the teacher and the parents -- the people who know the kids best. In return...
Every once in a while Mort pulls one out that is moderately amusing. "Hail to the Chief, President Bill Clinton. Long may he waiver." But the points he scores are withdrawn when he attributes to his wife the apocryphal remark about Pat Buchanan's speech at the 1992 Republican Convention sounding better in the original German. It's funny--too bad we've heard it before. Meanwhile, that elderly audience keeps on laughing...
Meanwhile, Liston released a statement in which he reversed himself on several controversial positions he took last spring. Liston said a referendum conducted last spring proved that students do not support the council's $10 term-bill fee hike or elimination of the easy waiver of the council...
...reforms listed on MRUC's posters have been controversial in the past. They include the addition of a second set of general elections and the simplification of the waiver of the $20 council fee on term bills...
With a cease-fire declaration by the Irish Republican Army a distinct probability, two I.R.A. leaders were granted temporary visas to enter the United States. The action was a rare waiver of a U.S. ban against those linked to the IRA's terrorist acts. The U.S. is also reportedly considering a major aid package for Northern Ireland...