Word: desisters
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Here is what happened. At 2:30 p.m.--after students had blocked the access of nine Law School employees to their offices; after those students had been informally asked to desist and informed that they were violating the rules; and after their disruption had lasted for more than six hours--University police appeared to take still and video photographs of the violators. At that time the students were formally directed by the vice-dean not only to cease blocking access, but also to vacate the area...
While he has a credible defense -- a combination of selective prosecution and sufficient, if not total disclosure -- his father and the Republican Party may wish he had cut a deal and signed the cease-and-desist order when the OTS was willing. With all the publicity surrounding young Bush, the FDIC may feel pressure to push its suit to partially recover from the directors and officers of Silverado the $1 billion loss to taxpayers. On Friday Democratic members of the House Judiciary Committee asked the Justice Department to appoint a special prosecutor to handle the Silverado case; but at least...
...objected to New Preperatory, or any of its predecessors, but Commonwealth Day was not so lucky. Only days after school officials began to move furniture and equipment into the building, they were slapped with a cease-and-desist order--requested by Arthur Brooks, a next-door-neighbor with several influential connections in the city...
...were talking war last week, but so far they have exchanged only angry words. Prime Minister V.P. Singh told Parliament that the people of India must be made "psychologically" ready for war with Pakistan, and that Islamabad would have to pay a "very high price" if it did not desist from fanning the secessionist uprising in India's Kashmir region. The next day General Mirza Aslam Beg, Pakistan's chief of army staff, fired back in a press release. "Threatening statements from India," it read, "were really serious and called for a high state of preparedness and vigilance to frustrate...