Word: conferences
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Only the goal light didn’t go on. And referee Scott Hansen didn’t signal. So everyone kept playing until Hansen blew the whistle to confer with his linesmen...
Only the goal light didn’t go on. And referee Scott Hansen didn’t signal. So everyone kept playing until Hansen blew the whistle to confer with his linesmen...
...woman." Debate is heating up about whether the wording of their measure would also forbid civil unions, which the President said last week states should be permitted to perform. Because of language in its second sentence saying that neither states nor the Federal Government can be required to confer upon unmarried couples marital status "or the legal incidents thereof," many legal scholars say the amendment would effectively ban such unions. "If you have to guess what something means, it probably doesn't belong in the Constitution," says Evan Wolfson, executive director of the pro--gay-marriage group Freedom to Marry...
...Still, the outcome of the talks?which included a commitment to confer again before July and to set up a working group to hammer out an agenda beforehand?was an improvement over the last such session. The six countries met for the first time last August, but those talks ended on a belligerent note after North Korea threatened to conduct a nuclear test. Last week, according to a statement issued by Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Wang Yi, all parties could at least agree that they had committed themselves "to a nuclear weapons-free Korean Peninsula...
...aren’t here to accept or reject—we’re here to be amused. The more dazzling, personal, unorthodox, paradoxic your assumptions (paradoxes are not equivocations), the more interesting an essay is likely to be. (If you have a chance to confer with the assistant in advance, of course—and we all like to be called “assistants,” not “graders”—you may be able to ferret out one or two cosmic assumptions of his own; seeing them in your bluebook...