Word: disbanding
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BRITISH royalty reigns but does not govern. According to a famed British constitutional scholar, Walter Bagehot, Queen Elizabeth II "could disband the army; she could dismiss all the officers . . .she could sell off all our ships-of-war and all our naval stores; she could make a peace by the sacrifice of Cornwall and begin a war for the conquest of Brittany. She could make every citizen in the United Kingdom, male or female, a peer; she could make every parish in the United Kingdom a 'University'; she could dismiss most of the civil servants, and she could...
...picture of the Soviet Union as a place where "everyone eats well. I gained 15 pounds in 16 days . . . but lost three on my way home in underfed France." Last week, Gutiérrez disclosed the price of his caviar and cutlets. His Revolutionary Workers Party, he announced, must disband and join Fortuny's Communist Party...
...topic of complete membership hit the campus in December when members of the Garfield Club, a non-fraternity group, voted to disband unless the college made it possible for every student to join a Greek-letter fraternity. The Garfield proposal goes before the Williams Board of Trustees this week in New York...
Contrary to the usual ad hoc committee procedure, under which groups named to suggest permanent appointees meet only once or twice and then quickly disband, the athletic director committee held over a dozen formal and informal meetings before it decided upon its list of possible successors to William J. Bingham...
...Beveridge said, Watson indicated that the H.Y.P. might eventually have to disband over the issue...