Word: subjection
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While he concedes that it is "a fine legal point," Russell said that as the document is written, all buildings constructed before the petition's implementation would be effectively grandfathered in and, therefore, not subject to a special permit process for renovations...
Additionally, Barber said that the grandfathering only applies to certain portions of the petition. All buildings would, for example, still be subject to the item reducing the ratio of floor area to land area on a lot, Barber said. The change in floor area ratio alone would place some University buildings in violation...
...alternative of freezing NATO in its cold war membership. Whatever the expenses and difficulties associated with enlarging NATO, there would be far greater costs and dangers of not doing so. If we were permanently to endorse the line Joseph Stalin carved across Europe in 1945, we would subject the alliance to the risk of irrelevance and perhaps dissolution. Rejected in their aspiration to join NATO, the Central and East European countries would scramble to jury-rig their own independent and therefore competitive security arrangements...
Presiding over one of his famously incongruous assemblages of guests on a recent evening, Bill Maher got on the subject of failed second-term presidencies. On the panel that night was Charlton Heston, who casually inserted that Ronald Reagan "won the cold war" during his last years in office. Maher's blood pressure started to mountain-climb. "He won the cold war? Please! This was strictly a Reagan project?...I would say Vietnam was the biggest thing that won the cold war..." The conversation shifted but Maher's mind didn't. Later he cut off one of his other guests...
According to a professor in the political science department at UCLA, the idea was informally discussed at the end of a recent faculty meeting. Although there was no formal vote on the subject, there has been "a lot of rumor and innuendo," the professor said...