Word: sworn
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...decision, which also applies to minorities, could affect the procedures not just of legal but also of architectural, engineering, accounting and other professional firms that are organized as partnerships. Carol Dinkins, who was sworn in the day after the ruling as Deputy Attorney General, the highest Justice Department rank ever held by a woman, called the action "gratifying"; the department had in fact supported Hishon before the Supreme Court. But, warns Harriette Dorsen, a partner in a New York City firm: "I'm not sure what practical progress will be made. Partnerships can be awarded in ways so that...
...operations of the intelligence services, but the government's usual, and accepted, answer is a blank "secret de la défense. The West German Bundestag does have a watchdog committee for that nation's equivalent of the CIA. But the committee's eight members are sworn to deepest secrecy The Bundestag has declared members of the antinuclear Green Party ineligible to serve on the committee because they would not take the pledge...
Responsibility for the new wave of killings was claimed by the Dashmesh Regiment, a previously unrecognized group of Sikh terrorists that counts moderate Sikhs as well as Hindus and the government among its sworn enemies. The Dashmesh, which may be connected with the fanatical Sant Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, has vowed to murder one political figure a day until the government lifts a ban imposed late last month on a radical Sikh student organization...
...gone to the Greenbrier, an isolated resort in West Virginia, to escape the postresignation curiosity of Washington, but continued, minute by minute, to manage the Middle East crisis. The President had decided that I should remain Secretary of State until my successor was sworn in, or until the President wanted me to do otherwise...
...Yard, the ACSR is holding an open meeting. They want to know what the Harvard community thinks. They could take a vote on divestiture this spring. They could pass a resolution calling for divestiture this spring. The ACSR is the appointed conscience of the Corporation, and the Corporation has sworn to respect it. A vote by the ACSR for divestiture could open the door to divestiture by the Corporation...