Word: stand-off
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...actions of Congress prove no better. A budget stand-off between Congress and the president threatens efforts to crack down on corporate wrongdoing. Congress has not yet funded the SEC for fiscal year 2003, which began Oct. 1, nor has it approved any future funding for the new Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, which the Accounting Reform Act created to monitor the accounting industry. In fact, the House, where appropriations bills originate, has yet to even introduce a bill to fund the SEC for 2003, let alone vote...
...Noted "We are watching two old men who have had a lifelong hatred of each other." MADELINE ALBRIGHT, ormer U.S. Secretary of State under Bill Clinton, on the continuing stand-off between Israel's Ariel Sharon and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat...
Exact numbers were not available yesterday, but HUPD's overtime costs, for maintaining at least five officers and a supervisor at Mass. Hall for the entire 21-day stand-off will top $130,000--plus the physical strain on officers who worked 16-hour days for most of protest...
While salaried administrators do not get paid overtime, Harvard officials say the total cost in time alone cannot be calculated. They had daily conference calls, regularly attended rallies outside Mass. Hall, and met with protesters throughout the three-weak stand...
...growing increasingly concerned over the danger that an escalation in violence could destabilize the region. The Bush administration has hoped to take a more stand-off approach to the region, but violence has escalated despite its calls for calm. In order to make a cease-fire possible, Washington has been leaning on the Palestinians to halt attacks on Israelis, and is growing more vocal in urging Israel to freeze settlement activity and ease the burden of daily life in the West Bank and Gaza. But thus far, there?s been little progress on either front...