Word: act
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...corridors of power thinks it's a sensible policy. European and Latin American governments have trade and diplomatic relations with Havana, and interact with the dissident community on the island rather than with the U.S.-based exiles. And when Washington, under the auspices of the 1996 Helms-Burton Act, sought to penalize foreign companies doing business with Cuba, it was sharply slapped down as being in violation of World Trade Organization rules...
However, Freeman said he thought that if Harvard graduate student TFs decided to unionize, Harvard's administrators would act differently from Yale...
PSLM member William W. Erickson '00-'01 said he believes the council's support will force the University to act...
...University has plans for several development projects, such as the Knafel Center and a new art museum on Memorial Drive, that councillors said may face council approval roadblocks if the University does not act soon on a living wage...
...pipe dream. There are so many ways to get around it." Apart from the impracticalities of trying to block international URLs from American computers, Quittner also sees the bill as a threat to basic freedoms. "I find it objectionable that the government would feel the need to act as a proxy in this way," he says. "This is exactly the kind of thing a totalitarian regime would undertake - in fact, it's exactly what the Chinese government has already done...