Word: disbandment
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...union closes to freshman following a fire causing $15,000 in damages. The business school raises tuition by $200 in 1956, the money is for an increase in faculty salaries.12/8: Students and staff of Harvard’s AFROTC bitterly criticized the Air Force yesterday for its decision to disband the unit in 1957.12/13: $4.5M from the Ford Foundation will be used to raise faculty salaries. Four days later, a DuPont donation of $30,000 to the University is made for graduate education fellowships and chemistry research.12/19: The divinity school initiates second phase of a fundraising drive with...
...every student who has felt a nagging dread at the mention of student government, last Tuesday’s vote by the Undergraduate Council (UC) to disband one of its own committees must have brought hope. But students’ satisfaction with this bill should come from the hope that the UC, having shed an obsolete arm, will be more efficient, not from glee that the student government seems to be disassembling itself. It is not; rather, it is recognizing its reduced role on a campus with a new mechanism for social programming. After weeks of discussion on several different...
...death"), is the largest and most disciplined in Iraq, and would be a formidable guerrilla force if fighting started in the mountains of their homeland. On the other hand, many Shi'ites have insisted that if the new Iraqi government is going to crack down on and try to disband ethnic militias, then the Peshmerga shouldn't be exempted...
...over policy or budgets but the operation of an ongoing war. And it is a message that will probably be heard more deeply by voters than the usual criticism from Capitol Hill or editorial boards, particularly because the generals are making essentially the same argument: Rumsfeld was wrong to disband the Iraqi military, has ignored the advice of people with far more battlefield experience and has shown too little concern about the abuses of Iraqi prisoners. The generals also argue that Rumsfeld insisted on too small a force for the invasion, abandoning the doctrine championed by former Secretary of State...
...Flaming Lips At War with the Mystics (Warner Brothers) 4 Stars It’s been 23 years and 12 LPs since the formation of cult favorites the Flaming Lips, and they now beg the question: will they ever disband? They’ve survived the departure of countless musicians, the Death Cabesque threat of overexposure after a Beverly Hills 90210 cameo, and the ignominy of touring as second-fiddle to an up-and-coming Beck. Not to mention heavy drug use, which nearly resulted in the loss of drummer Steven Drozd’s hand. Surely much...