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way ver

  • n  a formal written statement of relinquishment

  • After all, he had granted a waiver to a Washington Post reporter, and Tim Russert of NBC had just avoided contempt by testifying about his end of his conversation with Libby.
  • It should have been simple such a waiver has been granted to the nation's most populous state more than 50 times in the past.
  • All California needed was a waiver from the federal government, which has been virtually automatic over the past decades until this decision, the first time the EPA has said .
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  • Michael Chertoff in Voice of America
    We have a visa waiver program that allows most Europeans who come to be tourists to travel without a visa,Chertoff said. "That means the first time we encounter them is when they arrive in the United States and that creates a very small...
  • Bennie Thompson in FOXNews
    I am extremely disappointed in the court's decision,Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., said. "This waiver will only prolong the department from addressing the real issue: their lack of a comprehensive border security plan."
  • Arnold Schwarzenegger in Central Florida News 13|
    It is disappointing that the federal government is standing in our way and ignoring the will of tens of millions of people across the nation,said Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. "California sued to compel the agency to act on our waiver, and...

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