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...stealthily returning to the country, ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya remained bunkered in the Brazilian embassy with dozens of supporters. Honduras' de facto leader, Roberto Micheletti, gave Brazil's President 10 days to decide what to do with Zelaya but backed off a plan to limit news broadcasts and restrict public meetings after lawmakers objected. The U.S. and other nations have condemned the June 28 coup that forced Zelaya from office, though a U.S. diplomat blasted Zelaya's "irresponsible and foolish" return from exile before a deal was struck to resolve the crisis...
...restrict or prohibit assemblages of persons...
...having only instituted a few voluntary provisions, and the U.S. is - in the words of IBFAN founder Annelies Allain - "at the bottom of the pile." Its position in the lowest category 9 indicates that the country has taken no action to implement laws that would protect breastfeeding or restrict the marketing practices of the formula-milk companies...
...those land holdings—blanketed with tangles of railroad tracks and sliced by the Mass. Turnpike—cannot currently be used by the University because of CSX’s long-standing easements, which restrict the land’s use to railroad operations...
...base policy, Chetty said. “The basis will be facts.” The program’s resources, for student and junior faculty research, have also enabled the department to invite visiting faculty to the economics department even as budget troubles have caused FAS to restrict conventional funding for visiting faculty. Visitors will teach short-term seminars, but Chetty said their presence will be their greatest contribution. The literal proximity of their offices—and those of other Harvard applied economics professors—to the empty room will bring a plethora of great minds together...