Word: hold
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...first time since the Shoah - since Nazi occupation, [French] collaboration, and deportations - that a Jew was murdered in France purely because he was Jewish," Sammy Ghozlan, president of the National Office of Vigilance Against Anti-Semitism, told reporters outside the Justice Ministry following the decision to hold a retrial. (See pictures of the rise of Adolf Hitler...
...facilities or overflight rights for commercial aircraft - in return for Israel's simply complying with its obligations under the 2003 "road map" for peace. Each side seems to doubt the seriousness of the other, and each will cite the other's reluctance to move forward as a reason to hold back themselves...
...Norm Bellingham, chief operating officer for the USOC, insists that the IOC was informed of the network's plans for months. "We never heard any negative feedback from them," says Bellingham. "By the time we heard that they prefer that we hold off, we just did not feel like that was viable." (See 10 things to do in Chicago...
...bodies of the Olympic sports. The USOC needs this money, as it has lost valuable sponsors like The Home Depot, General Motors and Bank of America since the onset of the recession. So why not work with the IOC to resolve any issues with the network - or at least hold off on action until...
...rights cases in 89.1% of cases, compared to the circuit rate of 90.6% unanimity. She dissented in only two cases out of her 46 civil rights cases (4.3%) in the Constitutional Dataset, as compared to a 2.7% dissent rate for such cases in the circuit overall ... [She] voted to hold the challenged governmental action unconstitutional in 23.9% of cases, slightly more often than the Second Circuit overturn rate of 20.6% in such cases. However, she voted to overrule a lower court or agency determination in civil rights cases in only 43.5% of her decisions, less frequently than the circuit...