Word: sanctions
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...sanctions had prohibited the sale of military-related goods and the extension of loans or credit for reasons other than food or humanitarian needs. U.S. makers of engines, engine parts and electronic devices saw their exports to India fall from $297 million in 1997 to $97 million a year later. Similarly, exporters of construction, transportation and mining equipment experienced a drop in exports to Pakistan from $129 million to $38 million. "It'll take six months to be able to reinitiate contact with the agencies" that were under sanction, says Frank Folmsbee, sales and export manager for Aries Electronics...
Although Associate Dean of the College David P. Illingworth ’71 had previously planned to allow the group to poster for new punches before the committee’s meeting, he decided to wait for College sanction...
...Islam regains the dominant role, and naturally that would include oil and nukes. But to say it's about oil and nukes suggests it's not a metaphysical struggle, which it is for him. He thinks this is a big moral battle in which he's got Allah's sanction to attack the West." In a 1996 proclamation, bin Laden asked, "O Lord, shatter their gathering, divide them among themselves, shake the earth under their feet and give us control over them...
...what could go so wrong in a person’s life that he or she would be compelled to destroy thousands of innocent lives” should not be understood as kindness or sympathy on the part of peaceful individuals, but the deepest and most horrible sanction that any victim can give an attacker. What Long calls the “narrowness” of retaliation is actually a commendable refusal on the part of most Americans to wait for the next air attack or suicide bomber to bring an end to even more lives...
...FileOpen's code--potentially driving it out of business. CEO Sanford Bingham spent hours on the phone to Moscow in vain. "If they were doing this with credit cards, nobody would have any qualms about seeing this guy in jail," he says. "Ultimately there has to be a legal sanction...