Word: suspended
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...responding to corporate violations of workers’ rights. From the New Era cap factory in Buffalo, N.Y., to Land’s End’s Primo factory in El Salvador, the WRC investigated charges of union-busting and discrimination and WRC-affiliated universities threatened to suspend their licenses if companies failed to comply with codes of conduct—and the companies ended up complying. The FLA, when it took a public stance, did so only after the WRC had acted...
Moreover, the students argue, by forcing the law school to suspend its non-discrimination policy solely for lesbian and gay students, “the Solomon Amendment...violates plaintiffs’ right to due process and equal protection under the Fifth Amendment...
...fact, last week's story recycled four-year-old allegations that caused Harvard to suspend its research into hereditary links in a range of diseases. Since the program ended in 1998, four separate inquiries by both Chinese and American review boards have cleared Harvard (and two cooperating Chinese universities) of wrongdoing, save a few minor procedural lapses. A Chinese scientist from the prestigious Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) who looked into the case also found no evidence of malpractice; all the peasants he spoke to said they gave informed consent...
...with politicians and the press. When opposition lawmaker Kim Moon Su first accused Roh of hiding his land holdings?Roh denies any wrongdoing?the President filed a $2.5 million libel suit against Kim and four newspapers that published stories on the allegations. Last month Roh asked the courts to suspend the lawsuits until the end of his term, after an avalanche of bad press. But the damage has already been done. Making it personal doesn't look very presidential, says Choi Yang Soo, a communications scholar at Yonsei University in Seoul: "The President should be able to handle the scrutiny...
...move to a minimalist room on the top floor of the MAC with a painted red floor and chains hanging from the ceiling. The chains are there to suspend the huge Everlast punching bags the team drags in. There are also smaller, round punching bags called speedballs...