Word: blackout
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Unfortunately, Harvard has only become more secretive since Lawrence H. Summers was appointed University president. The faculty has complained about a total lack of transparency regarding the development of Allston. Staff protest the information blackout concerning budget shortfalls and layoffs. And the proliferation of spokespeople-cum-spin-doctors has made it impossible for reporters from The Crimson to properly cover even the most benign topics...
Though both Harvard and Yale made no overtures to independently arrange a network broadcast arrangement, Pennsylvania almost immediately entered into such negotiations, while Princeton privately voted against the NCAA’s national blackout...
...months passed, the tension slowly dropped off as the Ivy Group failed to extricate itself from the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference (ECAC), strongly in favor of the NCAA’s blackout plan, by continuing to use the league’s officials and remaining within the league’s governing infrastructure...
...earlier decision to sign off on a $24 million buddha when many of the province's rural inhabitants were so poor they resorted to selling their own blood might make for bad press. And as the country's propaganda chief he had the power to order a nationwide news blackout. Today, the only real movement in and out of the shuttered complex is that of the resident abbot?a friend of Li's, according to local guide Fu Rongguang?who drives around the countryside in a chauffeured black Cadillac. To the rest of the world, the buddha might as well...
...tussle over whether to raise the minimum wage. Meanwhile, even with gasoline prices rising, the energy bill that was once a top priority for Dick Cheney is now limping along; some Democrats are trying to break it up to pass the salvageable parts, like measures aimed at preventing another blackout. The one major bill that has moved through both houses lately--a measure to expand and repair the nation's highways--is in trouble with the President himself. He's called both the House and Senate versions too expensive...