Word: waivers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week after Nixon's resignation, President Ford suggests, at a breakfast meeting with the amendment's Senate backers, that an 18-month waiver be put on its punitive provisions. He promises to act unilaterally to invoke them if Soviet assurances to Kissinger of liberalized emigration are not carried...
Steiner also said that nothing in the new law compels a professor to write letters of recommendation--which means that a Faculty member can refuse to write a recommendation for a student who refuse to sign a waiver...
...judges long-pressed by the glut of an estimated 5 million non-felony cases, the key words of Argersinger must have been those permitting "a knowing and intelligent waiver" of the right to counsel. That phrase, says the center, "has resulted in a 95% waiver rate in some lower courts." In Houston and Belle Glade, Fla., according to the report, "it is assumed that a defendant has waived counsel unless he aggressively asserts .[the] right." In other jurisdictions, "defendants perceive, correctly or not, a tacit rule of court that those who ask for counsel are treated more harshly." Defendants...
Though the final decision belongs to the NCAA, the consensus among the players and others involved in the controversy is that the subcommittee's findings will result in a waiver for the players, allowing them to finish their collegiate careers...
Officials at State insisted that the waiver in no way represented a "change of policy" toward Cuba. Yet it was clear that Washington's move would contribute greatly to ending Cuba's ten-year isolation from most of the Western Hemisphere. At the urging of Mexico, Argentina and Peru, the Foreign Ministers in Washington last week reached a "consensus" that Cuba should be invited to their gathering next March in Buenos Aires. Several countries, including Chile, opposed the invitation, but even such strongly anti-Communist representatives as Brazil's Foreign Minister Antonio Azeredo da Silveira voiced...