Word: disbanded
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...months after the Taliban's defeat, Karzai's authority doesn't extend far beyond the gates of the palace in Kabul where he's permanently guarded by U.S. personnel. Much of Afghanistan has been carved up among rival warlords, and even Karzai's own Defense Minister has refused to disband his private militias. The opium trade and banditry remain staple economic activities; the Taliban and al-Qaeda are regrouping and expanding their activity both in the countryside and in the capital; and U.S. and coalition forces come under fire almost every...
...wrestlers claim that Title IX is the culprit behind their decline. They argue that the law’s proportionality requirement forces men’s collegiate sports teams to disband in order to achieve numerical equality with women’s sports teams. Yet, while it may serve a university’s interests to use Title IX as an excuse for cutting funding to sports teams, there is nothing in the law or its enforcement guide that necessitates cutting men’s teams...
...other schools,” there are parties every night, which rage tirelessly into the wee hours of the morning. These fêtes disband only at daybreak and only so their patrons might go forth to mate vigorously with one another as well as to attend to various incidental needs, such as nourishment, sleep and personal hygiene, that will make possible a return to partying the very next evening to begin the whole process anew...
With this elementary ethical principle in mind, I challenge the admissions office to come forward with statistics that refute the fact that the Z-list is composed almost entirely of wealthy legacy students—and if they do not, I challenge them either to disband this elitist money-funnel, or at the very least to be upfront about its true raison d’etre...
...does seem to be junior to Sinn Fein inside the republican movement. Most reputed I.R.A. leaders are now busy in elected office. But in spite of Adams' denials, and the symbolic destruction of some weapons, the I.R.A. is hardly dormant. To revive Stormont, unionists now require the I.R.A. to disband, a demand that republicans say is too much. The impasse looks so great that opponents of the agreement have already pronounced it dead. Months of negotiations loom, but both sides say they'll be there in the interests of peace - just as long as it is peace on their terms...