Word: claime
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Repeated military interventions, however, are responsible for the very evils that Pakistan's newest military rulers claim to have taken upon themselves to obliterate. Financial and political accountability and the delivery of justice requires the rule of law, the first casualty of a military intervention. Musharraf himself is responsible for superimposing the military's dictates over the supreme law of the land, the constitution. Blatant abuse of state power and institutional corruption were rampant in past Pakistani military regimes, but no dictator held himself, or his regime, accountable before the superior courts. Every military withdrawal took place after the high...
...also a supreme irony for a military junta to claim it intends to depoliticize state institutions. Not only will the armed forces play a direct political role but they will work, as in the past, through the civil bureaucracy, picking and choosing their civilian allies and in the process undermining institutional norms and procedures. In its first few weeks in power, the Musharraf regime has already appointed and dismissed a number of key bureaucrats and political expediency will continue to dictate its interaction with the civil administration...
...almost 65 minutes, this game was exhilarating. Ingram, who continued to stake her claim as the heir to Judy Collins '99 and tri-captain Dominique Kalil as the top Harvard striker, flashed her skills all afternoon...
...Lion had sued the reporters individually for trespass and disloyalty to employers, both valid grounds for damages under North and South Carolina laws, and the appeals court upheld the jury's awards of $1 on each of these counts. However, the court also ruled that Food Lion had not claimed any specific damages a result of the fraudulent applications filed by the reporters. Food Lion could identify no problems with the reporters' work; indeed, they both received positive reports from their supervisors, one of whom recommended that the reporter be rehired. Because North and South Carolina laws on fraud required...
After playing the first 90 minutes to a scoreless tie, Harvard turned up the heat during sudden-death, reversing the Tigers' attempts to claim...