Word: amends
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...probably too late. The nine-member Base Realignment and Closure Commission, which has toured the country since May to hear pleas from closing opponents in affected communities, plans to vote this week to approve or amend Rumsfeld's choices. Then Bush and Congress must accept or reject the commission's final list by late fall...
...case-by-case basis. In a separate ruling concerning Michigan undergraduate admissions, the court said rigid race quotas or formulas were unconstitutional. Any number of groups could potentially spark a new challenge. Anti-affirmative-action activist Ward Connerly is spearheading a 2006 ballot initiative in Michigan that would amend the state constitution to ban the use of all racial preferences in university admissions or state hiring. The Center for Equal Opportunity, a public-policy research group, has threatened to file federal civil rights complaints against some 100 colleges if they don't open any racially or ethnically exclusive programs, such...
Specifically, Bazerman said he was asked to amend his testimony to note that some of his recommendations might be “legally inappropriate” under certain circumstances...
...Travel Policy Committee, which was formed by Gross in May, comes after students started an online petition in May calling for the College to amend its current system. As of yesterday, the petition had garnered signatures from 438 students, faculty, and staff...
...countries of Western Europe, only Ireland, which is 95% Roman Catholic, and tiny Malta still ban divorce. That could soon change, at least in Ireland. Prime Minister Garret FitzGerald last week announced plans for a summer referendum on whether to amend the constitution to permit couples to end their marriages legally. If voters approve, the government will seek legislation allowing husbands and wives to divorce after five years of separation...