Word: scrapped
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...last Sunday’s meeting, after both sides questioned the factual accuracy of the position papers, the council voted to scrap these documents...
...HANS ISLAND Denmark and Canada exchanged words in March over this 1.3-square-kilometer scrap of Arctic wasteland between Canada's Ellesmere Island and Greenland. Both sides are playing down the dispute, but Hans could be the tip of the iceberg: Canada will launch operation Narwhal, its largest-ever war games in the Arctic, this August as part of a long-term plan to reassert its sovereignty in the north...
...people familiar with the meeting say Clinton told the panel he not only read every scrap of intelligence on the leader of al-Qaeda but became obsessed with bin Laden and wanted him dead after al-Qaeda terrorists bombed U.S. embassies in East Africa in August 1998, murdering 224 people...
...from the anticipated rapturous welcome, the U.S. mission in Iraq has been confounded by Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, the most influential spiritual leader among Iraq's Shiite Muslim majority. Sistani managed to scrap two U.S. transition plans and has now made clear that he wants the interim constitution signed last Monday amended before it takes effect on June 30, to eliminate the de facto veto power it grants the Kurdish minority over a permanent constitution. Sistani did, however, advise his supporters on the Iraqi Governing Council to sign the document, because failure to do so would have provoked a crisis...
...that’s where you come in, Brown and Penn fans. Stop resigning yourself to second place and start focusing on what you can do to prevent the Tigers from coming away with a sweep this weekend. Scrap the plans to head to Columbia, Dartmouth or the South Pacific and travel to Boston instead. Help make Lavietes an inhospitable environment for the Ivy leader. Help turn Princeton’s victory lap down the Champs-Elysees into a treacherous climb through the Pyrenees...