Word: waivers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...accused of using improper influence to gain a Treasury Department waiver permitting an oil tanker to engage in coastal shipping trade, thereby increasing the ship's value by $5,000,000. The tanker, it was discovered, was owned by officials of Dillon Read. Flanigan too had held a share in the vessel and had disposed of it only five days before the waiver was granted. Flanigan's reply: "I did not even know Treasury was considering a waiver...
...eight lawyers on Woolf's staff, the wheeling and dealing never stops. Offering "complete representation," Woolf and his associates not only thrash out injury and waiver clauses but handle trades, drafts, taxes, bills, wills, movies, TV, endorsements, investments, public appearances and even manners. When the Boston Bruins' Derek Sanderson won the National Hockey League's Rookie of the Year honors in 1968, Woolf schooled the then 21year-old high-school dropout in the social graces, got him a TV talk show, won him a salary increase from $14,000 to $50,000 and had him dash...
There are fairly stringment guidelines for the granting of requirement waivers, in order to insure the legitimacy of a student's claim. If a student does poorly on the Foreign Language Placement Test, he is automatically given the Modern Language Aptitude Test to reveal the possible presence of language learning disabilities. If the test indicates the possibility of strephosymbolia or an auditory discrimination problem, he is interviewed by a UHS psychologist who determines whether a waiver is in order...
...purposely fail the placement exam and the aptitude test, and then convince the psychologist of his need for an exemption. Indeed, students have succeeded in this poly. But Dinklage says there are safeguards in the interview that should disqualify those who are not legitimately in need of a waiver...
...guidelines for exempting students have been liberalized since the waiver's inception in 1963. At that time, it was necessary for a student to achieve a "suffering quotient" by failing a few language courses and thus proving his inability to learn a foreign language. According to Dinklage, there is now much more of an emphasis on spotting those who are specifically disabled in regard to language learning before they waste several semesters in a course...