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...importance of their symbiotic relationship to the campus as a whole. The longer this battle continues and each camp refuses to negotiate or make any concessions, the more students stand to lose. The UC and administration each need to take a step back, stop focusing on how to thwart one another, and refocus on students.The UC grant system, imperfect though it is, provides valuable and essential service in fostering vibrant extracurricular and social life on campus. By pooling the resources of over 6,600 undergraduates, the UC has facilitated concerts, publications, speaking events, study breaks, and the many other activities...
GIVE ME FIVE The redesigned $5 bill sports two new watermarks, a relocated security strip and purple ink--all to thwart counterfeiters...
Since that long boom ended in 2001, though, griping and whining have been ascendant. Greenspan was a bubble blower, the main criticism goes, a man whose lax monetary policies encouraged excess and speculation. What's more, he failed to thwart George W. Bush's demolition of the budget surpluses built up in the Clinton years. These complaints were steadily gaining in volume, thanks to the collapse of a mortgage-lending boom that began on Greenspan's watch, when the man jumped into the fray in mid-September with The Age of Turbulence, a new book about his life...
...person, on-the-ground surveillance. Off and on during the past nine months the suspects knew they were being watched. At one point, a suspect even stopped at a traffic light, got out of his car, and slashed the tires of the car behind him to thwart the German agents who were following him. One of the suspects, less than discreetly, chanted anti-U.S. slogans outside a nightclub frequented by servicemen while being watched. No need for a wiretap to pick that...
...four separate laws that extended the authorities' rights to investigate and monitor suspects and seize their assets. Blair did not have everything his own way; in 2005 he suffered his first-ever defeat in the House of Commons when members of his own party voted with the opposition to thwart an extension of the period police can hold suspects without charge from 14 to 90 days...