Word: amendment
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Introduced by council member Vedran Lekic ’04, the resolution requested that the Committee on Financial Aid amend its “Guidelines for Considering Student Requests for Financial Independence from Parents.” This policy, which was recently liberalized, is intended to free disowned students from the portion of a financial aid package that would otherwise fall to their parents...
...Absent legislation, members of FACTS (Families to Amend California's 3 Strikes) hope to get a statewide referendum on the 2004 ballot modifying the law to only apply to violent offenders on the third offense. The group's founder and executive director Geri Silva believes California voters will support a ballot initiative to focus the law on violent offenders only. While results of a recent poll conducted by a public policy research company indicate strong support (69 percent approval) for the three strikes law, results show as many as 65 percent of California voters would support a "violent offenders only...
...President spoke a day after France, Russia and Germany presented a united front vowing to stop any Security Council resolution authorizing war at this stage, and the same day as China backed the naysayers and Britain moved to amend the U.S. resolution in order to accommodate the skeptics' demand that inspections be given more time. Most accounts of President Bush's father's war against Saddam emphasize the masterful diplomacy of his coalition-building; whatever history's verdict on President Bush's own campaign against Saddam, it's unlikely to be remembered as a triumph of diplomacy. The U.S. military...
...because Cambridge’s ban would, in effect, amend an earlier regulation from the city council, only the votes of five councillors could make smoking illegal in bars and restaurants...
...last night, the group’s re-discovered constitution came into the spotlight as HRDC members voted to amend it for the first time in six years, mandating that future HRDC-produced shows involve a marginally higher percentage of Harvard affiliates...