Word: cedes
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...Israel, the carnage has boosted public support for Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's plan for withdrawing from Gaza. Hard-liners in his Likud Party, reluctant to cede territory to the Palestinians, nixed the proposal early this month. But in a national poll taken last week, 79% of Israelis backed the plan, which would at least take soldiers out of the line of fire in Gaza. Sharon may yet capitalize on that support...
...games take in more money than movies. An electrical engineer by training, he joined Sony in 1975, but his gut-check moment didn't arrive until 1990, when Nintendo backed out of a partnership with Sony to build a new video-game machine. Most in the company wanted to cede the battlefield, but Kutaragi believed Sony could go it alone; he led an in-house splinter cell that developed a new game console from scratch. The PlayStation debuted in 1994. By the end of the decade it was generating 40% of Sony's operating profit...
...ttgers, head of the Christian Democratic Union in North Rhine Westphalia, is to create a strong federal domestic intelligence agency and put the 16 state offices under its control, then give the BKA greater investigative powers and move the agency to Berlin. The trouble is, the states refuse to cede any power to the federal government. State officials say what's needed is improved cooperation, not centralization. At the end of last year, BKA president Ulrich Kersten proposed moving his team to Berlin, sparking massive protests by employees and local politicians who feared the economic consequences. Schily removed Kersten from...
Harvard Student Agencies (HSA) seems the likely candidate for this advantageous position—in fact, they drew up the original proposal. But while HSA showed a good sense of initiative and a benevolent desire to save students money, the council judiciously refused to prematurely cede its endorsement to HSA. Indeed, the bill’s stated purpose of minimizing student expenditures is best served by shrewdly investigating all possible plans to reduce the costs to students. The council has embraced this route and wisely stated a desire to limit the duration of the first contract to one year...
...determined to cede political control by June 30 and the Iraqis are not prepared to allow an unelected body to assume full political control, a bridge is required - and given the willingness of the Shiite leadership to accept the UN as an honest broker, there may be growing pressure to use the Security Council as the vehicle to mandate a transition process that also creates a legal framework mandating the coalition to continue in its role as guarantor of security...