Word: abstain
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...ACSR also voted to abstain on resolutions presented to the stockholders of CBS and of the international Business Machine Corp, that called for the company to adopt cumulative voting for the election of directors...
...Moscow to be informed of the cancellation, the Egyptian Foreign and Defense ministers were given white surgical gowns before being received by Brezhnev, who was lying on a couch in pajamas. According to the Egyptian visitors, the Soviet leader told them that his doctor had ordered him to abstain fully from political activity...
...includes, among other things, a recommendation for "un-dinners," complete with programs and speakers but no food. Perhaps curiously, considering their meatless Friday tradition, the nation's Roman Catholic bishops meeting in Washington last month recommended two days of fasting each week but did not enjoin Catholics to abstain from meat on those days. The reason: they had been reminded by Bishop Edward O'Rourke of Peoria, 111., that the nation's meat producers were themselves in serious economic trouble...
...Pacific Ocean would be resumed this month. Servan-Schreiber, a longtime opponent of testing, warned Chirac by telephone that he would speak out against the decision the next day. Chirac asked the volatile J.J.-S.S. to be "discreet," which was a bit like asking Martha Mitchell to abstain from telephone calls...
...time, at least), India and Burma have not yet reached the point of no return and can still "stop short of an energy stroke." But while people in developed countries speed onward blindly addicted to ever-increasing energy consumption, he tells Third World peasants to remain sober and "to abstain from something they have yet to taste." They must stop modelling themselves after the rich nations and abandon their impassible dreams of "overdevelopment...