Word: scrapped
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...most immediate effect of the ruling will be to scrap the Administration's current military tribunals. The court did leave open to possibility that the White House can ask Congress to have its special court system enshrined in law. But that is a humbling alternative for an Administration that has long held that the President's inherent wartime powers allow him to conduct such tribunals without consulting Congress...
...here have fewer female professors than Ronald Reagan’s cabinet. But the Kennedy School, with zero, does, and for most of the last term, student and women’s groups have called on the school to recruit, actively, women and minority faculty and students, and to scrap classroom policies they considered discriminatory. One women’s group even charged that the school’s lackadaisical search for women and minority faculty candidates has violated federal affirmative action hiring codes, a complaint still pending with the Department of Labor. Last week, the school finally began...
...This is a half-past-six country which has no guts." MAHATHIR MOHAMAD, Malaysia's former Prime Minister, warning that the government's decision to scrap a new bridge with Singapore, which was one of his pet projects, shows Malaysia is unwilling to stand up for itself. Singapore had opposed the bridge...
There may be some in the department who would prefer to scrap the sophomore tutorial altogether and substitute some sort of additional distributional requirement in its place—a move akin to the History department’s decision to knock off the History 10a requirement. Certainly such a move would please faculty who view teaching Gob 97b—or nearly any course that does not closely align with a particular research interest—as a “service” task. We urge the government department not to submit to this temptation...
...window into diversity at Harvard? Another piece of University Hall’s plan fell into place Friday, with the release of student group office assignments in the Quad’s Hilles building. These assignments provide even more conclusive evidence that McLoughlin’s plan must be scrapped. Office space in Hilles is simply inferior to office space in the Yard. And even with Hilles’ conversion, demand for office space is so great that preserving Yard space is necessary to house all student groups satisfactorily.The assistant dean has consistently and unconvincingly argued that the office space...