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...Union head. The 17 smaller nations, including most of the countries due to join in the spring of 2004, thought this eliminated one of their prime sources of influence and prestige. These countries want to retain the rotating presidency and strengthen the European Commission to serve as a bulwark against the power of the big boys. But Giscard was having none of that, either. His plans would reduce the Commission's importance by putting what many hope will be the E.U.'s most significant activity - foreign and security policy - firmly in the ambit of the European Council. Many fear that...
Universities have long been permitted to utilize intellectual property of their own creation for profit. But the vast majority of university research is at least partially supported by federal funds, which has historically allowed the government to retain title to those discoveries...
...would surrender if the details were worked out. "They're using the psychological instrument to collapse [the enemy's] will through intimidation and the creation in his mind of inevitable defeat," says Robert Scales, a retired Army major general. U.S. military officials are convinced that if Saddam manages to retain command and control of his forces, he will try to unleash chemical and biological weapons against allied troops and that most of those weapons are in the hands of forces close to the capital. Among the soldiers moving toward Baghdad last week, the specter of unconventional warfare was never...
...Wolcowitz says he isn’t worried about having too many TFs. Even if preregistration leads the FAS to overestimate the number of TFs it needs, however, he pledges that the Faculty will retain those extra TFs and put them to use reducing the size of the sections...
...club sought official student group status in order to retain use of the building at 12 Holyoke St. after the College bought it from the group’s graduate board, the Institute of 1770, in the spring...