Word: sanctions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rare moment that the powers-that-be of Harvard College grant sanction to fun. As should be expected, the people in University Hall and the Office of the Registrar are primarily concerned with prolonging our academic agony; legislation friendly to our social lives is unusual indeed. This time, however, Harvard seems to have goofed up. In the guise of honoring conspicuously dead Presidents, the College has accidentally encouraged free love by giving us a three-day Valentine's Day weekend...
Gatherings such as last evening's are part of a recent and growing trend of protests by anti-war and anti-sanction activists in Boston and around the country...
Monica Lewinsky should be free to testify to the truth as she sees it, subject to the usual sanction of perjury, if it can be proved beyond a reasonable doubt that she deliberately lied after receiving the immunity. The content of her testimony should in no way be influenced by Starr's threats or promises. It is not Kenneth Starr who will be testifying. It is Monica Lewinsky, and Starr's heavy thumb should not be on the scales of truth...
...inspectors returned last month. That much became clear Thursday when chief weapons inspector Richard Butler briefed the Security Council on Iraq?s continued refusal to allow him access to presidential compounds. The Security Council itself hasn?t changed, either ? France, Russia and China are still not willing to sanction any military punishment. All of which keeps the standoff ticking over, and the insults jockeying back and forth. Word to Saddam: Just keep Buddy...
...This is an emergency", Henry said. "There's been six years of sanction since the Gulf War. It's really devastated the people in the Middle East...