Word: cede
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...Advocates a reduction of Israel's Arab population by redrawing borders along Palestinian-controlled areas to cede select towns to the Palestinian Authority...
...dust-up began on Jan. 14 when Sylvie Uderzo published an open letter in French daily Le Monde, denouncing her father's decision to cede 60% of the Asterix series' parent company to publishing giant Hachette Livre. That sale was finalized earlier this month by Albert Uderzo and Anne Goscinny, whose father René was co-creator and writer of Asterix from the comic's inception in 1961 until his death in 1977. Since then Uderzo has continued producing the series on his own via the Editions Albert-René publishing company he founded in 1979 - a go-it-alone...
...establish performance measures and evaluate stimulus projects for timeliness and tails as well as competitiveness and carbon. During his campaign, Obama proposed an infrastructure bank that wouldn't finance projects that don't produce economic or environmental returns. But Oberstar hasn't put in 45 years just to cede power to a commission. "It's like turning around a battleship," Puentes says. "And we just don't have the time...
...well received by a parliament calling for strong fiscal support to save Canadian jobs, the government may once again face the possibility of being toppled. Earlier this month the Conservatives narrowly escaped being replaced by a coalition of parties, including the separatist Bloc Quebecois, which wants to cede the province of Quebec from Canadian confederation...
...Henri wants to avoid popular dissent around his reign, which may help explain his decision to cede political authority in order to hold on to the Duke's role as symbol of national unity. Michel Pauly, a professor of transnational Luxembourg history at the University of Luxembourg, says stripping the Duke of any legislative authority is the "natural democratic evolution" of the country, and predicts that Luxembourg will eventually go down the path of the purely ceremonial monarchy in place in countries such as Sweden and Denmark...