Word: bypass
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...sidling up to NATO or the E.U. Among the weapons wielded: troop deployments, trade embargoes and immigration quotas. Late last year Russia hiked gas and oil prices to Belarus, Georgia and Ukraine, all countries resisting the Kremlin's political embrace. With former satellites like Azerbaijan planning oil pipelines that bypass Russia, expect more hurt feelings--and more rough play...
...need cash. Maybe one of your kids has become a rock star or hedge-fund whiz. By setting up a privately funded reverse mortgage, in which your well-to-do child is the bank, you may be able to cut your loan expenses by more than 50% when you bypass the bank. Meanwhile, the house stays in the family. You also get the benefit of keeping order if you have more than one child. The one who supplements your retirement income through a reverse mortgage will have documented equity in your home, to be paid before your estate is settled...
...take this hill or that hill.” He added that giving Congress this prerogative was unlikely to provoke the “micromanagement” feared by critics, noting that it had no historical precedent and stressing the difficulty of mustering enough votes to bypass a Presidential veto. But Feldman, who was appointed in 2003 by the Bush administration to help draft the Iraqi constitution, emphasized Presidential primacy, saying that precedent was “not determinative” in the context of modern warfare, citing differences in scope, field communication, and feedback mechanisms that have fundamentally transformed...
Gerber's scheme, a former insider at the department tells TIME, "was to short-circuit the money before it reached the university" and thus have his department directly receive payments. To bypass the university's accounting service, Gerber had one of his secretaries rent an outside post-office box under the name "Tulane Pathology Group." Bonnie Jones Jackson, who was in charge of billing for the department, said she was sent twice a week to pick up checks from the mail drop. At first she did what she was told without asking questions. But gradually it began to occur...
...starts. Halfway through last fall’s shopping period, three of the new humanities courses were approved for Literature and Arts A, and only then because Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles and Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 decided to bypass the Core Standing Committee and approve the classes themselves. Similarly, students in English 125, “Shakespeare and Modern Culture,” received official notification only yesterday that it, too, will count for Literature and Arts A—four weeks into spring semester.The expansion of the Core, however...