Word: waivers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Since the scandal started breaking, Governor Rockefeller has cooperated energetically with the grand jury's investigations and with the New York City district attorney's office. He fired S.L.A. Chairman Martin Epstein, who refused to testify under an immunity waiver, appointed an ex-FBI man to take his place. Even so, Rockefeller will inevitably, as Governor, be tarred with some responsibility for the scandal, if only because he appointed Epstein chairman of S.L.A. And the scandal will not go away any time soon. New York City's Assistant D.A. Alfred Scotti has ten accountants, 60 detectives...
...Surrounded on all sides by the armed forces and oppressive power of the United States of America, my courage and my convictions do not waiver," he continued. "My heart still says 'never' but my calm judgment abhors the bloodshed that will follow...
...With a waiver from the Screen Actors Guild, the show often uses non-actors as extras when skills are required that actors could not readily acquire-machinists, bakers, athletes. It would be vastly simpler to shoot the whole thing in a studio, but the show savors the authentic sights and sounds of the city. By now, the crew has learned to cope with almost anything...
...program had received advance publicity in Latin America. When the U.S. embassy in Mexico subsequently indicated its belief that Fuentes was a Communist, the State Department denied his visa under the provisions of the Walter-McCarran Immigration Act. Although the State Department can choose to seek special waiver of such restrictions, in this case it did not. "Not in the national interest," said the Department. But Fuentes had had no trouble gaining admittance to the U.S. last October; then he came in connection with the publication of his latest novel which was well received in this country...
...Committee's reasons for its stand are, for the most part, valid. It observed that a new sophomore has many opportunities not offered to a normal incoming freshman. For instance, he can get waiver of the Gen Ed A requirement, exemption from lower-level Gen Ed courses and from Physical Training, immediate assignment to a House, and concentration in the first year of residence. But, the SCCEP report charges with complete accuracy, "the Advanced Placement tests, the present criteria for Sophomore Standing, do not measure quantities relevant to these privileges...