Word: accomplis
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...months of government paralysis, that figure had soared to 39% by August and now stands at 43%. Unless Belgium's political leaders can rekindle their faith in each other - and revive some deft coalition-building skills - the sentiment that Flanders is better off alone could become a fait accompli...
...would affect only about 1 percent of the Iraqi population. That could be taken to imply that [CIA] supported the move and thought it was a good idea, but that was definitely not the case. In fact, we knew nothing about it until de-Ba'athification was a fiat accompli. Clearly, this was a critical policy decision, yet there was no NSC Principals meeting to debate the move. As for the 1 percent number Bremer cites, he didn't ask for that estimate until the date after he issued the order, and once he got it he ignored...
There are pedagogical matters to be considered in any proposed calendar change, and these are matters that concern faculty. We should not be presented with a fait accompli, but we should insist upon a formal process of consideration and review, the same kind of quality debate that would be given to any proposed reforms in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. As it is now mid-April, and we as a faculty do not operate with the same apparent efficiency as the Undergraduate Council, the matter of calendar reform should await another academic year, a new Dean of the Faculty...
...Fogg Art Museum undergoes renovations of its own. Consequently, any potential renovations in Littauer will have to wait, possibly for as long as 15 years. Needless to say, economics faculty are less than thrilled about this development, of which they were informed after the decision was already a fait accompli. Though FAS is faced with a sizeable budget deficit and multiple priorities to juggle, the economics department is right to feel marginalized by the high-handed decision-making that has become all too typical of Harvard’s administrative policy. While these financial constraints may delay the long-promised...
...rejects the notion that its response to North Korea may be encouraging Iranian defiance. "We don't accept North Korea as a nuclear power, and we don't accept their continued nuclear program as a fait accompli," State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said Monday, adding that Iran's technological progress would not change how the U.S. views the situation...