Word: cede
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Foster will not be the only current administrator in University Hall to cede power to the new associate dean of advising...
...source familiar with the nascent constitutional amendment says one version would make clear that any actions by the President as Commander in Chief that affect domestic policies or U.S. citizens are subject to the exclusive control of Congress. "Congress can't completely cede wartime power to the President," the source says. Talk of an amendment could end up as merely a lever in hearings. Then again, the first 10 amendments--better known as the Bill of Rights--were demanded by the states in part to curb the Constitution's broad presidential powers...
...security-sovereignty deadlock was resolved in a compromise in which the Israelis agreed to cede responsibility for camera surveillance and watch-list screening at Rafah to European personnel, while the Palestinians accepted that the Europeans would have final authority to order extra searches and computer checks on people and vehicles traveling from Egypt to Gaza...
...difference.” It’s tough to speculate whether the Crimson would have lost to Lafayette and Cornell with a healthy Dawson. Saturday at least proved that, first, his legs can keep Harvard in the game; and second, he isn’t ready to cede the title of premier Ivy League back to Hartigan just yet. —Staff writer Lisa J. Kennelly can be reached at kennell@fas.harvard.edu...
...adventure. But to Beijing, the prize is worth the price: symbolically, a victory in space would be a rousing validation of its increasingly credible claim to be Asia's true economic and technological power, a status Japan has boasted for most of the last century and is loath to cede. The issue now, as China prepares to increase its advantage in manned space flight to 2-0, is whether Japan will soon experience a "Sputnik moment" and feel it has no choice but to redouble its efforts as a matter of national honor?or whether it will continue to dedicate...