Word: disbanded
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...ruins, Hizballah is rearming. Interviews with Hizballah officials and fighters and other Lebanese close to the party show that the group's battle-hardened military wing is stockpiling weapons, digging positions and training new fighters - despite resolutions passed by the U.N. Security Council last summer calling for it to disband. What's more, the Shi'ite party appears to be preparing for battles on two fronts: against Israel and against Hizballah's sectarian rivals in Lebanon. Hizballah has begun marshaling a new reservist army of Shi'ite street fighters, which would allow Hizballah's regular combatants to concentrate on confronting...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences voted to disband Biology in 2006. The Class of ’09 is the last cohort that will have the option of concentrating in the field...
...True to form, the Student Assembly had met to dissolve itself that spring, and failed to meet the attendance threshold necessary to conduct the official vote to disband. “The assembly had to be buried by telephone; the more dedicated representatives called the absentees to approve its extermination,” read The Crimson. The new UC, however, was created specifically to address areas where the old body had been lacking. It had official recognition, it had funding, it had the responsibility to disperse funds, and—with Fainsod’s old surfeit of committees having...
...Filonov's career peaked in late 1929, when the Russian Museum organized his personal exhibition - and crashed just weeks later in early 1930, when the authorities decided first not to open the exhibition to the public, and then to disband it altogether as undesirable. Filonov managed to present his works only twice more in collective Leningrad artists' exhibits. Then Communist Party authorities orchestrated a vicious press campaign depicting him as a hostile element to the ideals of the revolution. Filonov became a nonperson in a country less interested in "analytical art" than in the triumphant certainties of Socialist Realism...
This criticism drives Stringer nuts. In a world where everything is connected, he says, why disband a brand that can fulfill a consumer's every entertainment wish? He says the plan to get sprawling divisions to work together more closely is succeeding. "I just came back from China and the word Sony United is being stamped across every office there," he says. "People want to bring the company together." Slogans are one thing, though, and even Stringer acknowledges, "We still have a ways to go." Game...