Word: use
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...heart of the issue lies HRE, which controls the use of Sanders, as well as many other facilities on campus. HRE rents Sanders to many organizations with no connection to Harvard whose budgets are far beyond those of student organizations. No special consideration is given to student organizations, despite the fact that Sanders is one of only two large performance halls open to undergraduates...
...Thursday, as the first of 200,000 additional troops called into service by President Bush three weeks ago began arriving in Saudi Arabia, the United Nations Security Council passed by a vote of 12 to two a resolution authorizing "member states cooperating with the government of Kuwait...to use all necessary means" to enforce the withdrawal of Iraqi troops from Kuwait after January 15. It was a gesture of unanimity unprecedented in the Council's 45-year history...
...resolution required weeks of special lobbying by Secretary of State James Baker, and even so, is carefully worded to reduce its severity as much as possible. The six weeks period of grace inserted into the resolution came at the request of the Soviet Union, and a direct reference to "use of force" was removed from a draft version by the United States to prevent a Chinese veto...
...argument against an armed invasion rests simply on the plausibility of a successful, long-term embargo. And the Security Council decision on Thursday shows how such an embargo could succeed. The council has not voted to authorize the direct use of force in this way since the beginning of the Korean War, when the permanent Chinese seat was occupied by Nationalist China (Taiwan), and the Soviet Union was temporarily boycotting the Council...
...program, which is now in use at nine University libraries including Widener and Cabot, operates using compact discs containing complete bibliographical information for periodicals. Each terminal system cost the University...