Word: waivers
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...right to understand the experience of the fetus. Their bill would require abortion providers to tell patients that by 20 weeks after fertilization a fetus can feel pain, and to ask if she would like anesthesia for the baby. If she refuses, she would have to sign a waiver. Doctors who fail to follow the rules could face fines up to $250,000. "There is substantial evidence that by this point, unborn children draw away from surgical instruments in a manner which in an infant or an adult would be interpreted as a response to pain," the text...
...injuries began Cusworth’s sophomore year, when a preseason stress fracture of his right foot prevented him from playing in a single game. Cusworth withdrew from the college for the spring semester after the extent of the injury was determined and successfully applied for a Medical Hardship Waiver, allowing him to play during a fifth year. But because of the league’s prohibition of redshirting, even for medical reasons, along with the ban on extra semesters for non-academic reasons, there was no way, short of enrolling in a Harvard graduate school, that Cusworth could recoup...
Citizenship and Immigration Services also said that Song’s research qualified her for a “national interest waiver,” which speeds up processing of her application, according to the Boston Globe...
...went even further, introducing the Carolina Covenant in Oct. 2003, a provision allowing students from low-income families to graduate from the university without any debt. Many of the Ivy League schools also have similar programs. That caused fee waiver applications to increase 38.9% from 2004 to 2006. "I believe strongly that early admissions doesn't have an effect on low-income students here," Stephen Farmer, the assistant provost and director of undergraduate admissions at UNC, told TIME. "In the end you still have to have need-based financial...
...President Bush has promised to crack down on rising gas prices, saying on Tuesday that he has asked for a waiver of clean air rules and stopped pumping up the emergency oil reserve to try to help push down the price. He also said a $2 billion tax break for the nation's oil companies, which have seen some of the highest profit margins on record, should be repealed. It was a first step that many rejected as little more than election year politics, coming at the same time that such lawmakers as Illinois Democratic Senator Barack Obama are calling...