Word: disbanded
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Council member Luke R. Long ’03 said there had been no official vote to disband the program since preliminary discussions about its fate last spring...
...Smith and David Mason) are outspoken opponents of campaign finance reform. This fact raises the question of whether the commission will even enforce the new laws. But the bigger problem is that the FEC keeps third party candidates out of elections. To provide unbiased oversight, the federal government must disband the commission and replace it with an independent commission. This change would take the politics out of supervising elections, and it would mean that the campaign finance laws would be enforced without partisan bias...
After all, the rugby team gained a reputation for partying in the 1980s when it brought kegs to games and then infamously was caught inebriated outside the MAC and forced by the College to disband...
...jungles of northern Sri Lanka last week to hold his first press conference in 12 years and talk some very uncharacteristic talk: of peace. If the right deal is offered, he announced, he will call off the rebellion, collect the cyanide capsules from around his fighters' necks and disband what, with 217 attacks to date, is the world's most prolific suicide-bomb squad. "We are sincerely committed to peace," he said...
Sending in G.I.s to help disband Abu Sayyaf would deprive these cells of a useful bit of real estate. But it wouldn't eradicate the international danger they pose. Rooting them out is a job for the undercover boys. The FBI has beefed up its Manila office because, says an official, "the threat level is going up." It is worried that Asians might step in as suicide bombers now that airport security is targeting Arabs. And the 650 incoming G.I.s could provide nice cover for other covert operatives, such as CIA paramilitaries. "As we've said all along, what...