The Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998, which was heavily promoted by the entertainment industries, contains a provision called "anti-circumvention."

The second provision, called compulsory licensing, would let the South African Government license local manufacturers to make their own generic versions.

This added a new draconian set of provisions called Article 2A to the constitution.

So Alex and their grandmother have petitioned immigration officials to bring her here under an old but little-known provision called "humanitarian parole."

Instead, the legislation that passed contained a provision called "luxury decontrol," under which apartments are deregulated once their rent reaches $2,000.

Then, as part of a big tax and budget bill in 1990, Congress deleted a bunch of outdated provisions, called deadwood, from the Internal Revenue Code.

Indeed, Enron's contracts with some of these partnerships had provisions, called triggers, that required Enron's stock price to stay above certain specific levels.

By asking lawmakers to insert provisions called earmarks into spending bills, universities and their lobbyists have obtained more than $7 billion since 1980.

At issue is a provision called "new source review," part of the Clean Air Act amendments of 1977.

However, under a provision called concurrent jurisdiction, federal park rangers may enforce state and local laws, or invite local authorities to do so.