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...sanction vote was intended to punish Toshiba, whose 50.1%-owned Toshiba Machine subsidiary joined with Kongsberg to sell the Soviet Union sensitive technology that enables submarines to move more quietly underwater and thus escape detection. Under the terms of the Senate ban, which was passed as an amendment to a pending omnibus trade bill, the Federal Government is required to seek financial compensation from Toshiba and Kongsberg for the technology leak. Some Congressmen estimate that it could cost the U.S. up to $30 billion to bolster its defenses in the wake of the caper...
...whether he would ever sanction a U.S. military intervention in Nicaragua. No. Just plain...
...Undergraduate Council's new-found role as social facilitator fills a vacuum in Harvard's social life, and is particularly fitting for the council because of its access to manpower, finances and administrative sanction, members...
LAST NOVEMBER, several hundred professors and aspiring professors gathered in a meeting room on the second floor of University Hall to participate in--or perhaps just to witness--the formal sanction of a new field of academic study...
...right to veto appointments, degrees, and statutes passed by the Corporation...President Dunster saw the value of a system of checks and balances in University politics. Whereas many other colleges have only one governing board, their trustees, Harvard has two, and the workable board of seven must obtain the sanction of the cumbersome board thirty...