Word: conferred
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...House and Senate have adopted separate resolutions endorsing all the actions that Bush has taken so far, but making clear -- or so the framers claimed -- that they did not confer any advance approval of a decision to fight. There has been talk of a resolution providing that Bush could order war only with the specific approval of the U.N., but nobody has introduced such a resolution yet. Senate Armed Services Committee chairman Sam Nunn observes that Congress's real power is the ability to shut off funds for a war. That seems theoretical, to put it mildly; can anyone seriously...
...Seth A. Gitell '91 Joseph R. Palmore '91 Eric S. Solowey '91 Editorial Editors: Kenneth A. Katz '93 Joshua M. Sharfstein '91 City/State Editor: Matthew M. Hoffman '91 Sports Editor: Michael R. Grunwald '92 Photo Editors: William H. Bachman '92 David A. Herne '93 Copy Editor: Molly B. Confer '94 Business Editor: Raymond Nomizu...
Only the most naive booster would argue that the bioengineering of farm animals and plants poses no risks. With plants, for instance, there is always the possibility that new traits could be accidentally transferred to wild relatives of domestic species. Theoretically, experiments with genes that confer resistance to disease or herbicides could create hardier weeds. Food safety is another legitimate concern. Products from genetically altered crops and livestock will require rigorous testing to ensure that they are harmless...
Regardless of what MIT does, Reed said Florida will move ahead on a with its plans to build or renovate a laboratory, hire scientists and confer with researchers who will be using the facility...
...might be accepted. It is rarely "accepted"; we 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 it 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 blue book, he can only applaud your uncommon perception. For example, while most graders...