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...that is, for one of the most influential of all: Secretary Rubin. He knows that an anti-IRS bill backed by the G.O.P. leadership will move to the House Ways and Means Committee this week, but he has refused to budge on a central Republican demand: that his department relinquish some of its control of the IRS to an oversight board made up mostly of private citizens. So as long as the bill includes the oversight board, it will trigger a Clinton veto. And the Republicans will begin crafting their...
Students caught carrying anything from apples to bagels out of the food facility have been reprimanded, and a few have been asked to relinquish their edibles at the door...
...emeritus status at the School of Public Health (SPH), was given a bit of encouragement on the path toward retirement. That encouragement came in the form of a $250,000 bonus, paid to him in 1996 by then-dean Harvey Fineberg 67, on the condition that he relinquish his full-time position. This use of a financial incentive to encourage a professor's retirement has caused quite a bit of controversy in the ranks of the Faculty. One SPH professor called the practice "morally wrong." However, we believe that the use of financial incentives is a good way of keeping...
...government will keep control of a few strategic industries like steel and armaments. But it will otherwise relinquish the common ownership of production that has underpinned the Communist Party's claim that China is still a socialist nation. However much elders of the party might flinch at the crumbling of their faith, Jiang is sure to win endorsement from the 15th Party Congress, meeting for seven days in the capital to set the country's agenda for the next five years. The inefficient and money-losing businesses have become such a burden that the leadership can no longer...
...less than 36 hours later, Paxon was in Gingrich's office, volunteering to relinquish the leadership post that Gingrich had invented for him. "Newt," Paxon quavered, "if you want me to resign, I will." The next morning, Gingrich accepted the offer. And so it was that a G.O.P. rising star learned a bitter lesson: if you set out to kill the king, you had better make sure he's dead...