Word: waivers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...number of add drop petitions filed by Monday's deadline exceeded last year's total by about 170 percent, Law said, and the rise likely resulted from a shortened shopping period this semester. A one-week waiver of the $15 fee to change courses at the beginning of the term also contributed to students' indecision over courses, the registrar said...
...University did not collect $1650 in late fees used to process petitions in the first week after study cards were due, she said. The waiver was intended to compensate for halving the traditional two-week shopping period given students to select courses at the beginning of each term...
...analysis that followed the Challengerdisaster led to 56 major and more than 400 minorhardware modifications--and a new, moreconservative launch procedure. Conservative ornot, NASA launch supervisor Robert Crippen granteda waiver of wind guidelines to move the launchforward. NASA said he met with his 21-personoversight team, reviewing an analysis of the windsituation, before approving the waiver...
When Dukakis began his first term in 1975, there was little pressure to continue Sargent's efforts. The EPA, which turned the screws on other cities, was lax about Boston. It waited nearly five years before rejecting an application by the Dukakis administration for a waiver from the Clean Water Act. "Dukakis wasn't there, but no one else was either," recalls Judge Garrity. As a result, the proportion of adequately treated sewage dropped from 4% to 2% between 1976 and 1980; in contrast, Illinois took advantage of 90% federal funding so that Chicago could increase its treated sewage from...
Instead of pushing hard for a cleanup, the Dukakis administration in 1984 requested a second waiver from the EPA. Dukakis' secretary of environmental affairs, James Hoyte, defends this action, claiming that EPA hinted that additional studies might change the agency's mind. But according to EPA Administrator Deland, this application was a stalling device. "The waiver was designed for West Coast cities that discharged sewage into thousands of feet of water, and not for East Coast cities discharging into 30 or 40 feet," he says. The EPA denied the request. "Those were the critical years when time was lost," says...