Word: sanctions
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Rather than risk its Division I status and a possible NCAA sanction, the Harvard men's basketball team has cancelled two games scheduled for later this season...
There's an intermediate ground between presumed consent and complete dependence--you could call it "required request." It would oblige physicians to ask [next of kin for permission to harvest organs]. With this sanction, that the doctors will always ask, it would overcome doctors' reluctance to do so, and reduce the trauma of the families. It would be a sanctioned part of social discourse which is something which, to me, we clearly should...
Sullivan was an ally of Perle's in the bureaucratic struggle, but he was on the wrong side of the Potomac. He ran afoul of colleagues in ACDA and State when he tried to get the Administration to sanction what one official recalls as "a laundry list of every Soviet misdeed since the birth of Lenin, all of them branded as arms-control violations." He was fired from ACDA in. March 1981 but has remained an active, though largely invisible, protagonist in the battle over arms control as an adviser to three conservative Republican Senators: James McClure and Steven...
With this sanction from public opinion, Reagan's "age factor" became a big news story. ABC's Sam Donaldson predicted that to win the second debate, Reagan had only not to drool. By relieving anxieties about his health, Reagan "won" the second debate while losing again on points; the proof was that he stayed high in the polls...
...pyramid is the so-called cupola, or commission of ten. Headed by the chief of the Palermo provincial council, the cupola is the body that settles jurisdictional conflicts and attempts to coordinate all activities outside Sicily. Dominated by the more powerful of the clans, the commission should sanction the murder of an important judge or politician, or approve the assassination of an uncooperative Mafioso in New York. Sometimes this system works. But on numerous occasions, says Pino Arlacchi, a sociologist on the staff of the Italian legislature's anti-Mafia commission, it does not. In fact, Arlacchi warns against...