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...before coaching, Davison faced two extremely difficult decisions. In Eastern Sectional competition in 1979. Davison had earned third place after the short program She had a tendentious injury that was hurting during her performance. But rather than taking a waiver on to National competition (a decision frowned on by the skating community), Davison finished the entire program and placed fourth, one short from making the Nationals. "It was simply a case of honor among skaters," she explained. "I didn't want people to think I had faked an injury just to get to Nationals. But I might have made...
...interest bills were barely quashed during the final hours. Among them: an act to exempt the maritime industry from antitrust laws, a reprieve for timber companies that hold $2 billion in unfulfilled federal contracts, an exemption that would allow beer distributors to set up local monopolies and an antitrust waiver for the National Football League. There was even a bill that would exempt Zeke's Floatin' Bait, which is manufactured by a company in La Canada Flintridge, Calif., from a 10% excise tax. Despite Metzenbaum's guard, a few yuletide goodies may slip into law, including...
...complicated procedure by which the SEC in cases of insider trading is allowed to make a formal request for information to Swiss authorities through the U.S. Justice Department. Under the new accord, Swiss banks will now ask customers who wish to trade in American stocks to sign a waiver that would allow the banks to reveal their names if they are suspected of insider trading. Without that waiver, Swiss financiers, under the country's bank-secrecy law, would face up to six months' imprisonment or a fine of up to 50,000 Swiss francs (about $23,600). Switzerland...
...live performances, but the actors have given them such wide choices. Under pressure from its rank and file, Actors' Equity in 1972 agreed to let members work for free in theaters that seat no more than 99 people. There have since been hundreds of such so-called waiver productions-423 last year alone...
Unemployed actors look upon waiver work as a way to attract the attention of TV and movie agents; those who are lucky enough to be working enjoy the challenge of demanding scripts. This month, for instance, Hal Williams is busy from 5:30 a.m. until 6 p.m. playing Sergeant Ted Ross in the CBS series Private Benjamin. But four nights a week, he also appears for free as Boise McCanles in the L.A. Actors Theater production of Steve Carter's all-black Nevis Mountain Dew. "A play like this doesn't come along very often," he says...