Word: motion
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...July, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) sued Scour, claiming that the company's software facilitated massive copyright violations and was therefore illegal. The Recording Industry Association of American (RIAA) joined the MPAA's lawsuit soon after...
...only way forward for Ehud Barak was to go back - to the electorate, in search of a renewed peace mandate. Facing certain defeat in his efforts to stop Israel's parliament from adopting a motion to force new elections, the Israeli prime minister shocked his opponents Tuesday by simply calling a new election himself after serving only 18 months of his four-year term. Having failed to coax hawkish opposition leader Ariel Sharon into a national unity government, Barak found his minority government isolated in the legislature. By calling new elections, he's opted for a referendum on how Israel...
Until quite recently, most cardiologists put little value on pictures of the heart. They assumed that it was impossible to get a truly accurate image of an organ in constant motion. But with improvement in the technology for snapping freeze-frames of the beating heart, physicians have started to rely more and more on images of the heart not just for looking at problem areas but also for predicting the likelihood of future heart trouble...
...form of a thoroughly planted article titled "Gore Is Said to Harbor Unshakeable Conviction That He Has Won the Election." John M. Broder's survey of Gore's "associates" included such lines as "Mr. Gore is frustrated, even embarrassed, they say, by the legal maneuvering he has set in motion in this quest to prove he won the balloting in Florida." (We know how he feels.) That was the appetizer for the Sunday shows; Gore will serve the main course Monday night...
...response, the weaker their political and diplomatic position becomes. And the current crisis is ratcheting up domestic political pressure on Barak's beleaguered government, no matter how forcefully he responds to Palestinian attacks. The ultra-Orthodox Shas party has indicated that it plans, on Monday, to support an opposition motion to dissolve the Knesset and call new elections. That would make Barak a lame duck prime minister, precluding any new agreements with the Palestinians...