Legislators in Florida and California are pressing to force universities to accept credit from MOOC courses, especially if students can't get into the in-person versions of the courses they need.

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OECD's Financial Action Task-Force, which is pressing for tighter controls on money-laundering.

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The head of Saudi Arabia's religious police has said there is a pressing need to employ more women in the force.

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But it is surely no coincidence that Mr Verheugen is pressing more strongly than ever these days for the creation of a European force strong enough to intervene in crises where the Americans do not wish to be involved.

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But some alumni criticized the task force as a "distraction" from what they consider the most pressing issue: accepting responsibility for decades of alleged abuse students suffered at the hands of a football coach Philip Foglietta between 1966 and 1981, which is currently the subject of a federal lawsuit brought by nine plaintiffs.

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This past August, more than 90 U.S. senators signed a letter to President Barack Obama pressing him to sanction Iran's central bank, with some, threatening legislation to force the move.

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The reason is that if states unilaterally start arresting undocumented aliens and dispatching them to the federal government for deportation, they will force the federal government to expend law enforcement resources on immigration when it might have other, more pressing, concerns such as, say, terrorism.

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