Word: waiver
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...return for testimony, New York law hampers state investigations by making immunity automatic unless the individual agrees to waive it. The result, in this case, is a deadlock. "It's clear that Hynes has no intention of immunizing them, while most defense attorneys would be unlikely to sign a waiver," points out Thomas Russo, a former assistant D.A. from the neighboring borough of Queens...
Oregon's list is not without critics. The Washington-based Children's Defense Fund is actively lobbying against the Medicaid waiver needed to put the plan into effect. Says CDF director Sara Rosenbaum: "We don't understand why the state's poorest children have to give up literally life-and-death benefits for the sake of this social experiment...
...implement. Last summer the council asked the EPA to make more than 100 changes in proposed regulations for carrying out the act, changes that top EPA officials say undercut the law. The most controversial proposed change would allow polluters to unilaterally increase their emissions if states ignore a waiver request for more than seven days. "You could drive a big truck through some of those holes," said a top EPA official...
...restriction, however, includes a waiver that allows the HIV-positive person to enter the U.S. for the purpose of attending conferences, receiving medical attention, visiting family or conducting business in the public interest...
Despite the exemption to the ban provided by the waiver, the Harvard AIDS Institute announced on August 16 that because of the "continuing uncertainty" of the country's policy toward HIV-positive individuals, it would not hold the conference in Boston...