Word: suspended
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...many Protestants that seems irreverent, so they call it the Belfast agreement. But each side argues that its commitment to the agreement's principles is greater than the other's. So how have they allowed themselves to get into yet another disastrous fight? This week Britain is set to suspend self-government, close the Stormont Assembly and rule directly from London, one more unhappy time. The immediate cause was a police crackdown on a ring of alleged spies run by Sinn Fein, the political arm of the Irish Republican Army. Police and government officials say republicans had vacuumed up more...
Cabot and Pforzheimer House masters have decided to suspend Brain Break for an “indefinite” period of time in response to the incident...
...company that runs the GRE, claims students were able to beat the system because electronic tests were offered so frequently that questions had to be re-used often. That made it easy for students to compare notes and tip off their peers via the Internet. The service will suspend electronic versions of the exam in the three countries, instead giving paper-based tests just twice a year. Officials became suspicious after colleges complained that incoming students' impressive scores were sometimes belied by their lousy English. It's unclear how many were involved, but in China alone the average verbal score...
...company that runs the GRE, claims students were able to beat the system because electronic tests were offered so frequently that questions had to be re-used often. That made it easy for students to compare notes and tip off their peers via the Internet. The service will suspend electronic versions of the exam in the three countries, instead giving paper-based tests just twice a year. Officials became suspicious after colleges complained that incoming students' impressive scores were sometimes belied by their lousy English. It's unclear how many were involved, but in China alone the average verbal score...
...runoff vote in the new parliament, facing front runner Gonzalo Sanchez, a former President. More than that, Evo-speak--"The drug war is just a U.S. excuse to control our countries"--resonates beyond Bolivia's borders. Next door in Peru, irate coca farmers have successfully pressured the government to suspend eradication. In Colombia, the coca crop has grown fivefold in five years, to more than 400,000 acres, despite almost $1 billion in U.S. eradication funds. Authorities now say they will spray only "industrial-size" coca fields and not those of smaller farmers, who are, of course, the voters...