Word: embroilment
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...Harvard Corporation to in effect punish Harvard cadets and midshipmen by withholding formal recognition of ROTC programs due to political policies imposed by Congress. Such political issues are entirely beyond the control of the Defense Department, the ROTC units and Harvard students. It is not appropriate to embroil U.S. military organization with politics...
...ACSR stressed that ‘the University, as an academic rather than a political institution, must take great care to avoid leveraging its endowment or prestige in ways that could embroil the institution in political and social controversies not directly related to its academic pursuits,” the report read, “and thus compromise the core values and independence of the academic enterprise...
...ailing Rehnquist should also step down soon, it would embroil the President in a complicated set of choices. Would he push for two staunch conservatives? Or offer one hard-liner and one more moderate nominee as an inducement to Democrats to go easy on his more conservative pick? For Bush's conservative base, there is only one way to go. The court has long remained the branch that has thwarted conservatives' key goals, especially an abortion ban. Recent 5-4 decisions affirming the right of a locality to seize private property or forbidding the display of the Ten Commandments...
...only follows that Frederic and Raoul, who has taken an immediate fancy to the girl, need to embroil themselves in the political and romantic mess with Raoul’s hopelessly star-struck friends (Viviane’s an actress, remember?), strategically introduced for more comic relief. Call it a veritable love hexagon, in which people are always in love with people in love with other people...
...Bush administration. It's not the first time his name has been floated for a top job - Republicans spoke of him as a potential running mate for Bob Dole in 1996. But his long experience also means the environmental movement already has his dossier. A Kempthorne nomination "would embroil the administration in the worst of all conformation battles," says Phil Clapp, president of the National Environmental Trust...