The banks inserted provisions into their agreement that would make it expensive for a hostile offer for FleetBoston.
In 2003 and 2005, Mr. Bond inserted provisions into appropriations legislation to delay the California regulations and limit their possible scope.
The two banks inserted provisions into their merger agreement that would make it expensive for another bank to make a hostile offer for FleetBoston.
A number of the countries that restrict bankruptcy to merchants have, however, inserted provisions for insolvency proceedings governing nonmerchants in their codes of civil procedure.
The practice was routine among the art cognoscenti until almost two years ago, when Senator Charles E. Grassley, the Iowa Republican who was then the committee's chairman, inserted provisions into the Pension Protection Act of 2006 that made partial gifts less advantageous for donors.
Many Democrats in both chambers were furious today when they read the fine print of the new version of the bill and found that Republicans had inserted provisions that had not been discussed in the six months of debate on the antiterrorism department, or that had been cut in the Senate bill.
But according to at least three people with knowledge of the discussions, who spoke anonymously because of the confidentiality of the talks, Apple inserted provisions requiring publishers to discount e-book prices on best sellers — so that $12.99-to-$14.99 range was merely a ceiling; prices for some titles could be lower, even as low as Amazon's $9.99.
On Wednesday Palmer said his senators would be moving amendments to "insert provisions to ensure the full savings power companies receive … are handed to everyday Australians".
Aside from the default danger, Greece and Europe may well be able to insert provisions into a private sector agreement that would prevent "free riders" — as the holdouts are sometimes called — from receiving their bond payments at all.
Mr. Reid agreed and inserted a provision for the federal government to pay Nebraska's new Medicaid costs indefinitely.
He said the Clinton administration had inserted that provision to overturn a Reagan administration policy that took the opposite tack, calling for classification in cases of doubt.
