Alternately, we could encourage the university system to be more responsive to market forces by creating a no-frills, federal degree-granting body that awards certificates to students who pass exams in a given subject.

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Recognizing the importance of cooperation between the United Nations and regional organizations, as well as its benefits to the world body, the General Assembly today adopted a set of modalities granting the delegation of the European Union the right to make interventions, as well as the right of reply and the ability to present oral proposals and amendments.

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It is a small but growing share of the roughly 13, 000 business degree-granting institutions world-wide, according to the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, an accrediting body.

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For one, his idea of granting each crew woman a monthly one-day paid personal leave got vetoed twice by the 25-member executive body in 2010.

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