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Reinharz issued his letter after receiving one signed by more than 60 faculty members complaining that they had not been consulted on the future of the Rose and urging him to suspend any decisions on the matter. Last week a group of Brandeis students also staged a sit-in to protest the closing...
...take months, and many of the political appointees who will be manning the responsible federal agencies haven't even been picked yet, never mind confirmed. Environmental groups like the NRDC are already seeking to challenge some Bush regulations in court, and the White House could at least maneuver to suspend - if not yet revoke - the rules while it seeks to overturn them. The Administration could also seek to withhold funding from certain regulations. Last, as part of the Congressional Review Act, which went into force in 1996, the White House can ask Congress to vote down any rule finalized after...
...register for a second semester than were students who were not offered the supplemental financial aid. And the participants who were first offered cash incentives in spring 2004 - and thus whose progress was tracked for longer than that of subsequent groups before Hurricane Katrina abruptly forced researchers to suspend the survey for several months in August 2005 - were also more likely than their peers to be enrolled in college a year after they had finished the two-term program. (Read "Putting College Tuition on Plastic...
...income Americans. Even if it was political opportunism, as conservative critics insisted, it got home-heating fuel to hundreds of thousands of yanquis during the past four winters, when the price was often skyrocketing. On Monday, however, with world oil prices plunging, the Venezuelan President decided to suspend his large-scale, multistate U.S. program in order to tend to financial concerns at home. Then on Wednesday, at the urging of U.S. politicians whose constituents had come to rely on the oil, Chávez reversed himself and said the heating oil would keep flowing this winter...
...Japan's exports declined 14.5% in November, the largest monthly drop since the country started compiling such data in 1975. Toyota recently warned that in its coming fiscal year it would suffer its first annual operating loss in the company's 70 years. The carmaker also plans to suspend production at all 12 of its Japanese factories for 11 days in February because consumers worldwide aren't buying. Masafumi Yamamoto, head of foreign-exchange strategy for Japan at Royal Bank of Scotland, says a 10% appreciation of the yen slashes the GDP growth rate by 0.3 to 0.4 percentage points...