Word: provisionally
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IF THE HOUSE HAD A THREE-strikes rule, majority leader Tom DeLay would be packing his office. The Committee on Standards of Official Conduct last week rebuked DeLay for two ethics violations and told him to watch his step in the future. He was reprimanded for sending federal officials to...
Congressional leaders and some members of the Administration have tried recently to make up for lost time by denouncing the killing in Darfur. Despite Powell's statement, however, there are disagreements within the Administration and between the U.S. and its allies over whether the violence against Darfur's Africans amounts...
write-offs and other types of aid. "One dollar of debt relief is the same as one dollar of grants," says a World Bank official. Last week at the G-7 summit, the U.S. Treasury proposed a plan to cancel the debt of about three dozen countries by using money...
In 2002, the Pentagon—invoking a 1996 provision known as the Solomon Amendment—said that Harvard would lose hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding unless the Law School granted military recruiters an exemption from the nondiscrimination policy.
Lawyers for the U.S. district attorney’s office in Boston argued the two economists violated the conflict-of-interest provision in their contracts when they made personal investments in Russia while advising the privatization program.