Word: omits
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...trunk should be. And the Colorado-based nonprofit Focus on the Family is continuing its Stand for Christmas campaign to highlight the offenses of Christmas-denying retailers. The campaign was launched, according to its website, because "citizens across the nation were growing dissatisfied with the tendency of corporations to omit references to Christmas from holiday promotions." (See pictures: "Have a Very Ridiculous Christmas...
...addition to the uproar surrounding the 2005 editorial cartoons, Klausen’s book, titled “The Cartoons That Shook the World,” has itself emerged as a point of controversy. Yale University Press, the book’s publisher, decided this August to omit the original cartoons for fear of provoking a resurgence in violence. The move drew the ire of the editorial boards of The Washington Post and The New York Post among others. “In effect, Yale University Press is allowing violent extremists to set the terms of free speech...
...would jettison the public option in favor of nonprofit, consumer-owned health-care co-ops, which would mean far less government involvement than many liberals would like to see. The Finance Committee, whose chairman, Max Baucus of Montana, is working closely with ranking Republican Charles Grassley, appears poised to omit any requirement that employers provide coverage to their workers (though they would have to reimburse the government for what it would pay to help them buy their own coverage) and to give relatively skimpy subsidies to Americans who would now find themselves required to buy insurance...
...everyone is sold. In a move that angered academics and activists in China and the U.S., Wang decided to omit the word vagina from the play's title - at least for half the run. In Beijing, the production was billed as The V Monologues. In Shanghai, two months later, the original title was restored. The name change was not endorsed by Ensler's camp, and critics were quick to spot the irony. "The point is to speak it out," says Ai Xioaming, a professor of women's studies at Sun Yat-sen University. But Wang insists that his decision...
...editor in chief. According to Tanton, the administration has been proposing to alter the format of the Q Guide for years, but she and other editors had pointed out the dangers of printing full text answers, some of which contain obscenities. Tanton said administrators told her that they would omit obscene comments, which she said would lead to bias against negative responses. Annie E.P. Stone ’10 and Anna Marie Wagner ’11, two of about 40 students who applied to work for the Q Guide this summer, said it was somewhat frustrating that the administration...