Word: council
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...Kelsos are pleading not guilty to charges of abandonment, a misdemeanor. But affluence turned their predicament into loud headlines. Richard, 62, is president and ceo of the PQ Corp., a major specialty-chemical company, and serves on a prestigious Philadelphia business council; Dawn, 45, is an activist for disabled-children?s causes and for three years has been a member of the Pennsylvania Developmental Disabilities Council, an advisory group to the state welfare department. News stories noted that the couple drove away from the police station, where they were charged, in separate BMWs...
...nursing care over the holidays and had to sleep in shifts to care for their only child. "My sense is that what she and her husband did was the product of a lot of stress," said University of Pittsburgh law professor Paul O?Hanlon, chairman of the disabilities council. "She had spent years fighting to keep Steven at home but felt the system wasn't really backing...
...have been India's strongest negotiating tool - the threat of force. The Taliban has also warned that if the Indian government and the hijackers haven't managed to negotiate an end to the dispute by Saturday, the plane will be forced to leave Afghanistan. "The Taliban's ruling council has decreed that no foreign military personnel will be allowed onto Afghan soil, and that rules out a commando raid to take out the hijackers," says TIME New Delhi correspondent Maseeh Rahman. "That may build up domestic pressure in India to release the Maulana in order to save the hostages...
...distanced observer to the politics of the Undergraduate Council and a former student at Harvard, I was frankly shocked by the appearance of this latest scandal in student government (News...
Therefore I suggest that John Burton not be allowed to take his office as vice president and whoever the second place finisher is be allowed to assume the office instead. Ms. Driskell should also be given immunity from being impeached by the council for anything connected to the campaign finance scandal. People will be alienated and upset if either both Driskell and Burton are allowed to assume office or if they are both barred from holding office. I believe that a compromise such as the one listed above is needed for the good of the already ailing and extremely weak...