Word: holding
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Last December, the council nixed a constitutional amendment that would have created the popularly-elected office of a president. Although the majority of council members opposed the proposed change--fearing that a president elected by the entire campus would encroach on their power--the council wisely voted to hold the referendum this week on the issue...
...procedure remains an expensive long shot, which fails perhaps 85% of the time. This week the House Subcommittee on Regulation, Business Opportunities and Energy will hold hearings to investigate growing complaints that many heavily promoted IVF clinics misrepresent their success rates. The panel's chairman, Oregon Democrat Ron Wyden, intends to reveal an industry survey showing that the performance of IVF practitioners varies enormously. According to Wyden, half the IVF clinics have yet to achieve a birth, though they may charge up to $7,000 for each fertilization attempt. Says the Congressman: "With millions of couples, many of them desperate...
While most plans at Radcliffe are on hold until the new president arrives this July, Radcliffe officials say the college is facing fundraising challenges that could threaten the institution's ability to support future programs...
...expectations of government were lowered, allowing "the free market, small central government, [and] Republican ideas to take hold," Skocpol said...
While the arch-anti-Communist Guatemalan government managed to trust Nicaragua to hold its part of the bargain, Ronald Reagan did not give them the chance. In urging further funding for the Contras, he explicitly violated a major provision of the treaty--that all outside help to guerrilla groups...