Word: implementation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Burton Act. Europe is fiercely opposed to the law's provision for U.S. sanctions against foreign firms doing business with Cuba. "The administration knew Helms-Burton is bad policy but felt trapped into signing it," says TIME White House correspondent Jay Branegan. "Very little has been done to actually implement the law, and the President has repeatedly waived key provisions." Now the two sides appear to have reached a compromise to avoid wrecking the World Trade Organization, which has served both parties well. And while no one is revealing the details, don't expect the U.S. to make trouble...
Speaking of blatant disregard, randomization was a unilateral decision on the part of the University to implement a non-choice housing program that the majority of students had clearly and consistently opposed. Such paternalistic action on the part of the Administration, displaying clear disinterest in student voice on the issues that most intimately and regularly affect our lives, is a mockery of our intelligence and maturity...
...think that I would not implement a similarban myself," said Suzanne M. McCarthy, co-masterof Pforzheimer House...
...elevated and affirmed it, serving as an instrument for democracy and justice. Instead of making the lofty trivial, as it so often seems to do, the image made the passing eternal and assisted in the resistance of an airbrushed history written by the winners. Technology, which can so often implement violence or oppression, can also give a nobody a voice and play havoc with power's vertical divisions by making a gesture speak a thousand words. The entire Tiananmen uprising, in fact, was a subversion underwritten by machines, which obey no government and observe no borders: the protesters got around...
...even Mitraud knows there's a battle ahead and that the real challenge comes in spreading environmental passion to a much larger community. "All I can do is implement the process," says Mitraud, as she hurries to another meeting in Alto Paraiso. "If within five years I don't feel like I can leave here, then we've failed." But Mitraud's evangelism seems to be taking root. Says Irani Avelino Nascimento, an unemployed quartz miner turned park guide: "Before, I abused the environment and got little out of it," he says. "Now I respect it and earn a better...