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To: Boplicity who wrote (28)	3/15/2000 8:50:00 AM
From: lorrie coey	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13572

How can I contact an etrade compliance officer, directly? Might you know? [egrp's foray into cash dispensation should be fun to watch-] I thought this definition was Ironic...LoL! "dispensation" Dispensation \Dis`pensa"tion\, n. [F. dispensation, L. dispensatio.] "1. The act of dispensing or dealing out; distribution; often used of the distribution of good and evil by God to man, or more generically, of the acts and modes of his administration. 'To respect the dispensations of Providence.' --Burke. 2. That which is dispensed, dealt out, or appointed; that which is enjoined or bestowed; especially (Theol.), A system of principles, promises and rules ordained and administered; scheme; economy; as, the Patriarchal, Mosaic, and Christian dispensations. 'Neither are God's methods or intentions different in his dispensations to each private man.' --Rogers. 3. The relaxation of a law in a particular case; permission to do something forbidden, or to omit doing something enjoined;* specifically, in the Roman Catholic Church, exemption from some ecclesiastical law or obligation to God which a man has incurred of his own free will (oaths, vows, etc.). 'A dispensation was obtained to enable Dr. Barrow to marry.' --Ward. dispensation n 1: an exemption from some rule or obligation 2: a share that has been dispensed or distributed 3: the act of dispensing (giving out in portions) [syn: {dispensing}] From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary (easton) Dispensation [Gr. oikonomia, management,"economy"]. (1. The method or scheme according to which God carries out his purposes towards men is called a 'dispensation'. There are usually reckoned three dispensations, the Patriarchal, the Mosaic or Jewish, and the Christian." In God We Trust///