Word: waivers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...program had received advance publicity in Latin America. When the U.S. embassy in Mexico subsequently indicated its belief that Fuentes was a Communist, the State Department denied his visa under the provisions of the Walter-McCarran Immigration Act. Although the State Department can choose to seek special waiver of such restrictions, in this case it did not. "Not in the national interest," said the Department. But Fuentes had had no trouble gaining admittance to the U.S. last October; then he came in connection with the publication of his latest novel which was well received in this country...
...Committee's reasons for its stand are, for the most part, valid. It observed that a new sophomore has many opportunities not offered to a normal incoming freshman. For instance, he can get waiver of the Gen Ed A requirement, exemption from lower-level Gen Ed courses and from Physical Training, immediate assignment to a House, and concentration in the first year of residence. But, the SCCEP report charges with complete accuracy, "the Advanced Placement tests, the present criteria for Sophomore Standing, do not measure quantities relevant to these privileges...
Opportunities such as waiver of the Gen Ed A requirement, exemption from lower-level Gen Ed, concentration in the first year of residence, and immediate assignment to a House currently are not "open to a Freshman even if he has particular qualification or an unusually pertinent reason...
Robert C. Lockwood, a 41-year-old Miami insurance adjuster, had tax troubles. The Internal Revenue Service claimed he owed $415.69 in back taxes. Lockwood insisted he owed nothing. The collectors put on the pressure, and Lockwood, like many another before him, buckled. He signed a waiver permitting the Government to attach his paycheck. Said he: "I just gave up. I'm a little guy. I didn't figure I could fight the Government...
...sooner had Robert Lockwood signed that waiver than he had more than tax troubles. He had wife troubles. Pretty Margaret Ann Lockwood, 28, gathered up her children-René, 2, and ten-month-old Robbie-and marched into the Miami tax collector's office to demand return of her husband's paycheck. Says she: "I told them Robbie had just got out of the hospital, where he was treated for acute anemia, and we needed the money for medicine. They wouldn't listen. They're rather coldhearted and impersonal down there." But Margaret Lockwood...