Word: circumventions
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But if the public service unions appeared to be the most visible victors in the election, the Democratic party was also heartened by the results. By pushing this special election, Schwarzenegger took a risk by trying to circumvent the Democrat-controlled legislature in Sacramento and take his reform proposals directly...
By the the time it got to Chicago, Wal-Mart had learned something from its bad experience in Inglewood, where the retailer attempted to circumvent the city council by pushing for the necessary rezoning through a ballot referendum. Wal-Mart had then donated $65,000 to the Los Angeles Urban...
Although the application will require students to confirm that they are on campus by using a computer on the Harvard network, Registrar officials acknowledge that crafty students may still be able to circumvent this system to extend their vacations well into late-September.
Critics of black programs charge that they are often so designated to circumvent the usual competitive procurement procedures. Even a Pentagon panel that issued a report last year titled Keeping the Nation's Secrets concluded that programs could be designated black for reasons other than national security. That can lead...
As pirates invented their own programs to circumvent that scheme, the manufacturers turned to more elaborate ones. They recorded tracks backward, recorded data between tracks, left spaces between bits of data, used spiral (rather than circular) tracks, even burned tiny, precisely placed laser holes in the original that foiled attempts...