Word: breach
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...eighth one since the Gulf War ended--of what it has and is trying to obtain in the way of biological, chemical and nuclear weapons, plus missiles to deliver them into enemy territory. In theory, if analysts reading the declaration catch Iraq in any lies, that's a "material breach" of the resolution and grounds for "severe consequences." Officials in Washington and London as well as at U.N. headquarters say such a finding will not automatically start the guns firing. But what is or is not in Iraq's declaration, they warn, could mark the point of no return...
About four out of five applicants chose to be notified of their admissions decision by e-mail in the second year that Harvard has offered the option. Harvard does not offer decisions on its admissions Web site, unlike Yale, which maintained its Web notification this year despite a security breach of the site last spring by members of the Princeton admissions office...
...after Independence Day in 2001 (this could only be an American Christmas story), Minuto filed suit against Harvard for, among other things, breach of contract after his transfer request was denied. A redshirt freshman at Tulane University who had once starred at quarterback for Northern Highlands Regional High School in New Jersey, Minuto contended that Murphy and then-assistant Bruce Tall promised him that his transfer request would be successful, that the rest of the admissions process was a formality and that he should drop his Tulane commitments and any other transfer plans to pack his bags for Cambridge...
...currently in compliance with the Security Council's demands - at least as far as a majority of Council members are concerned. Some U.S. officials had suggested earlier that a declaration deemed substantially false by the U.S. and Britain could itself provide the basis for declaring Iraq in material breach of Resolution 1441, and calling for military action. But without any support on that position, Administration officials are now saying that a false declaration would be treated as a "piece of the puzzle" in making the case against Iraq, rather than as the basis in itself for declaring it in breach...
...patented drugs are currently too expensive for patients in the developing world because we prefer to save pharmaceutical profits instead of human lives. Parts of sub-Saharan Africa have been declared in a “state of emergency,” which means they are legally allowed to breach patents and produce the drugs at little or no profit. However, they have been unable to find a company to do this...