Word: prohibitions
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...press for maximum autonomy and oil-revenue share for their independence-minded people. As their price for endorsing a Shiite-led government, they're demanding not only an extension of their de facto autonomy in their three northern provinces - including the right to retain their own armed forces and prohibit the national army from entering their domain - but also control of the divided oil-rich city of Kirkuk and of Iraq's oil ministry. That's a prohibitive price for the Arab majority, both Shiite and Sunni. The Kurds, however, mindful that their 27 percent of the Assembly counts...
...fair, the CIA has internal guidelines that prohibit rendition unless the receiving country provides assurances that the suspect will not be tortured, and have assigned a nominal contingent to monitor compliance. Nevertheless, when pressed, CIA director Porter J. Goss, in Congressional testimony last month, admitted the virtual impossibility of verifying compliance in practice. “…of course once [the suspects] are out of our control, there’s only so much we can do.” Another senior government official interviewed by The New York Times said that “Nothing...
...bill would also ban human reproductive cloning, prohibit the sale of human embryos, and oversee research through the creation of a “duly appointed Institutional Review Board...
...problem has been resolved since 9:45 this morning,” he said. “We made some changes to the system to prohibit access to that information...
...consequence, the issues of the curricular review are being submerged: last Tuesday’s Faculty meeting, in fact, was supposed to discuss the much-neglected review. If the review continues to be associated with Summers, whose fingerprints are all over its agenda, the current climate may prohibit serious discussion about the nature of undergraduate education. A successful curricular review should not just restructure course requirements; it should reinvigorate professors and students to the fundamental missions of a liberal arts institution. This one has accomplished anything but inspiration—just as Summers’ past comments about African-American...