Word: waivers
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Though the I.O.C.'s deadline extension was motivated by hopes that some no-shows might change their positions, both U.S. and Soviet officials welcomed the chance to push their causes further. "A waiver of a deadline to accept an invitation is also an opportunity for countries that have accepted to decline," said a State Department spokesman last week. On the same day the chairman of the Soviet Olympic Organizing Committee maintained that "some of the boycotters intend to revise their decisions...
...minute after he handed in his thesis," Gerard F. Denault, tutorial secretary for the History Department said. "Our wierdest story, however, is about someone who put their thesis into a computer and lost two chapters on magnetic tape. It's really too bad--he's applying for a waiver of our penalty of subtracting two points per hour," he added...