Word: quashed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...best journalistic tradition. The Heights revealed that the BC administrators had "inadvertently" filmflammed a student scholarship fund out of $3 million and diverted the funds to other purposes; that the school had incurred an unannounced deficit of $10 million; that the University had made secret plans to quash student demonstration--and suddenly the administration felt compelled to phase out funding for the Heights...
...best journalistic tradition. The Heights revealed that the BC administrators had "inadvertently" film-flammed a student scholarship fund out of $3 million and diverted the funds to other purposes; that the school had incurred an unannounced deficit of $10 million; that the University had made secret plans to quash student demonstrations--and suddenly the administration felt compelled to phase out funding for the Heights...
...Court upheld the law. The specific issue, raised in an appeal by a Siena tribunal, was whether church marriages can be dissolved by a civil court. The court held that they could. This left popular referendum as the only recourse left for Italy's vocal anti-divorzisti to quash the divorce law. They had already anticipated that move the week before in submitting 1,370,134 signatures-nearly three times the number required-petitioning for a referendum to abrogate...
...This Friday in Harrisburg Judge R. Dixon Herman will consider a motion to quash the subpoenas to testify in Harrisburg which were recently served on about 30 people. He denied motions yesterday to force the government to disclose evidence it had obtained about the witnesses through electronic surveillance...
Many of the 5,000,000 citizens of the Ivory Coast are devout animists who revere the crocodile as a sacred beast. So President Félix Houphouet-Boigny, himself a Roman Catholic, does little to quash the widespread belief that he keeps the palace pond well stocked with the respected reptiles and consults them regularly...