Word: sanctions
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Will the overpopulated future offer any room or even sanction for the individual consciousness? Bill Gray, 63, a famously reclusive author, ponders this question as the outside world beckons him to go public. What awaits him there, as his dark imaginings foretell, are terrorists, those who have usurped the novelists' authority and now "make raids on human consciousness." This meeting is unforgettable, thanks to DeLillo's terse, electric dialogue and descriptive passages of insidious beauty...
Will the overpopulated future offer any room or even sanction for the individual consciousness? Bill Gray, 63, a famously reclusive author, ponders this question as the outside world beckons him to go public. What awaits him there, as his dark imaginings foretell, are terrorists, those who have usurped the novelists' authority and now "make raids on human consciousness." This meeting is unforgettable, thanks to DeLillo's terse, electric dialogue and descriptive passages of insidious beauty...
Wednesday night, the sanction-based strategy was unfortunately discarded. Now we can only hope against hope for as quick and bloodless a victory as possible. An indefinite suspension of the offensive or the withdrawal of American troops from the region would undermine the legitimate objective of the U.S.-led coalition and would likely lead to greater instability and bloodshed in the Gulf...
...Carleton College, Minnesota's prestigious private liberal-arts school and, in 1983, one of the first in the nation to establish a sexual-harassment policy. In the language of the university's judicial code, "rape" doesn't officially exist. School administrators call it "sexual harassment" or "advances without sanction." But those phrases don't seem very useful when Julie, Amy, Kristene and Karen try to describe what happened to them...
...instead she picked the gentler alternative -- an internal review, at which she ended up being grilled about her sexual habits and experiences. Her attacker was found guilty of sexual assault but was only suspended, because of a dean's assurance that he had no "priors" other than "advances without sanction...