Word: umbrellas
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...beginning of the academic year, the graduate board of the Hasty Pudding Institute of 1770 (the umbrella organization for every group that uses the Holyoke Street building) decreed that the first floor of the building, including the member's lounge, must remain "dry," meaning no alcohol at any events...
...against a surprise nuclear attack by... North Korea. With the least technological fudging yet, the Pentagon on Saturday night managed to shoot a dummy nuclear warhead out of the sky with a ground-based rocket - the latest in a string of successes that have the idea of a nuclear "umbrella" edging closer to approval by the Clinton administration. For TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson, it?s a dubious triumph of lowered expectations. "It?s not Reagan?s ?Star Wars,' which was space-based," he says. "This is the so-called ?thin shield,? which consists of a smaller amount of interceptors...
...then there?s the possibility that such an umbrella could create more diplomatic foul weather - or even, down the road, more nuclear threats - than it?s designed to shelter against. The Russians have shown absolutely no inclination to modify the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty to permit such a weapon, despite a U.S. compromise position of just one ground-based interceptor site based in Alaska (the second one is slated for North Dakota). China is equally perturbed at the idea, since U.S. allies in the Pacific, like Japan, are certain to clamor for the technology. But there's considerable pressure...
Students for Bill Bradley contacted Director of Student Activities Susan T. Cooke about forming an independent student group in early September. According to Cooke, the group was encouraged to work under the umbrella of the College Democrats...
...sweeping umbrella of the commerce clause may now be facing a intensive dissection, says Sanders. ?This court has indicated that it?s willing to take a look at these commerce-based laws, and that it may be willing to impose some limits.? Still, no one is predicting that a ruling for the defendants would radically alter civil rights laws, and despite the Supreme Court?s history of reviewing its past decisions, it may examine the anti-discrimination laws and decide to leave them alone. ?Sometimes,? explains Sanders, ?the Justices will let certain rulings stand, if they feel that the resultant...