Word: cedes
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...create "facts on the ground" in any future peace negotiations. Those facts on the ground now include some 120,000 Israeli settlers dotted throughout the West Bank and a further 5,000 in Gaza - territory that Israel, by the logic of the Oslo peace process, ultimately intends to cede to a Palestinian state. Needless to say the settlers, who are predominantly armed ideologues laying claim to what they see as the biblical Land of Israel regardless of Palestinian ownership or international law, have little interest in seeing through the peace process. And the present hair-trigger climate certainly gives...
Courts should not cede their jurisdiction over such serious situations to universities that are unwilling to guarantee due process for both the victim and the defendant. If courts do delegate their responsibility to universities, the resulting privatization of justice sets a chilling precedent. Courts ensure due process and basic rights, such as the right to be represented by an attorney, because the decisions in serious cases like Shaer's have a huge impact on people's lives. A university's determination in such a case can have a similar effect. Therefore, those rulings ought to be made by a court...
...Bush, it was a bad week to be having a bad week. With the national polls giving the Vice President a 10-point postconvention bounce and even a slight lead over the Texas Governor, Bush needed to seize the agenda, not cede it to Gore. And though Gore could lose his groove as quickly as he found it, statewide polls indicate his advantage has grown in California and New Jersey. He is running ahead of Bush in Michigan--a crucial battleground state--and, for the first time, in Minnesota, which is normally a state Democrats can count...
...always put in a kind of showdown in the 200, and I'd gotten tired of that. I'm a lot more relaxed going to Sydney the way it is." Heading into Atlanta, Johnson demanded attention--"I want all eyes on me." This year he's content to cede the eyeballs to Marion Jones, while he "tries to have some fun" with his family--wife Kerry and three-month-old son Sebastian...
...Bush, it was a bad week to be having a bad week. With the national polls giving the Vice President a 10-point postconvention bounce and even a slight lead over the Texas Governor, Bush needed to seize the agenda, not cede it to Gore. And though Gore could lose his groove as quickly as he found it, statewide polls indicate his advantage has grown in California and New Jersey. He is running ahead of Bush in Michigan--a crucial battleground state--and, for the first time, in Minnesota, which is normally a state Democrats can count...