• These agreements are be reviewed and approved by the Office For Fair Access (Offa) each year, with institutions that fail to meet their agreed targets on recruitment and retention facing fines or losing the right to charge higher fees.

    BBC: University students: Fines over access threatened

  • The question facing the court is whether the detainees have the right to go into the U.S. courts to challenge their detentions, using the constitutionally guaranteed procedure called a writ of habeas corpus.

    NPR: Supreme Court Hears Guantanamo Arguments

  • But philosophical arguments about the merits of central banking have nothing to do with the practical question facing Ben Bernanke right now: is monetary policy currently too tight or too loose?

    FORBES: Quantitative Easing and Government Intervention

  • It highlights one of the biggest problems facing the financial system right now: balancing the political need to loan out taxpayer funds and ignite the stalled economy with demands to shore up their balance sheets and insure survival during the riskiest lending environment in a generation.

    FORBES: TARP

  • Under the system, those facing trial would have a limited right to appeal any conviction, reducing the jurisdiction of federal courts.

    CNN: Justices: Gitmo detainees can challenge detention in U.S. courts

  • In other words, unleash the world of possibilities that a blank check and real freedom to innovate can open up, but with smarts about getting that check to the right kind of people facing the right kind of challenge, and, perhaps hardest of all, with serious discipline that will encourage, not stifle, creativity and ensure real progress toward the final goal.

    FORBES: To Make People Innovate, Write Them a Blank Check

  • One of the other issues facing young people here in Egypt is a lack of skills to equip them for the right job.

    BBC: Dreams to despair for Egypt's young

  • Recently, I was in a meeting where the CIO of an organization undergoing IT transformation shared that keeping the right perspective is the key to getting through with the ups and downs facing the IT teams during the change accompanying transformation.

    FORBES: YOUTH

  • One major exception applies to that rule: In order to ensure those who participate are doing so for the right reasons, taxpayers already under criminal investigation or facing charges for tax evasion are usually ineligible to participate in most programs.

    FORBES

  • That holds true even for lawyers representing gypsies and travellers, who often assert the right to private and family life when facing eviction from illegally occupied land.

    ECONOMIST: The Human Rights Act has not lived up to expectations. Good

  • Did her enquiries extend beyond the Daily Mail, which first published the story: " Migrant facing deportation wins right to stay in Britain... because he's got a cat"?

    BBC: Government v Judiciary on Article 8

  • Except, if he is right and we really are facing a catastrophe comparable to the Great Depression, it is reasonable to ask whether cutting VAT from 20% to 17.5% is really a match for the occasion.

    BBC: Osborne, Balls and the OECD: Where they agree

  • 'The Twin Virtues' view argues that the compatibility of unequal outcomes and equality of opportunity is an important answer to many of the seemingly intractable economic, political and social questions facing the world right now.

    ECONOMIST: Inequality and the world economy

  • As a user of tens of billions of gallons of water in its food and beverage operations globally, including in many nations facing water shortages, PepsiCo has recently adopted a water policy dedicated to fulfilling the human right to water as defined by the United Nations.

    FORBES: 'Pepsi Refresh' Is Not PepsiCo's True CSR Effort

  • The visitors had managed only one league victory at White Hart Lane in the last decade but buoyed by victories in Houllier's first two matches and facing opponents who had played in midweek they might have felt the time was right to address that record.

    BBC: Tottenham 2-1 Aston Villa

  • For the Sidewinder to move laterally to the left with the nose facing front, the two left wheels spin toward each other, and the two right wheels spin away from each other.

    FORBES: Airtrax topples the tyranny of steering.

  • The commercial space industry is facing just such a development right now, with some members of Congress proposing to cut funding in half for a crew vehicle that several companies are competing to build.

    FORBES: SpaceX: Will Elon Musk's Triumph Be Transformative Or Transient?

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