Word: abstaining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Giving the official university position, acting news director Arthur Clifford said, "Students may follow their conscience, but faculty are not free to abstain from their responsibilities...
...people from around the country participated, the New York Times disclosed that its Supreme Court reporter Linda Greenhouse had marched, in violation of the paper's policy. The Washington Post also admitted that several of its reporters had taken part. It ordered those who had done so to abstain from covering abortion-related stories in the future...
...that would prevent the Soviet Union from developing its own bomb. The proposal comes to a vote. It needs unanimous endorsement. One delegate after another says "Yes," until first the Polish, then the Soviet, delegate is heard from. A 37-year-old Andrei Gromyko says, softly and in English, "Abstain." The plan is dead, and the tone of the superpower rivalry is set for nearly 40 years to come. Finally, Gromyko is shoved aside by Mikhail Gorbachev, who knows how to say yes to the West and churn out a dizzying array of proposals...
...disagrees with specific farming practices, like veal production methods, the proper response is to use persuasion and publicity to convince others to share that position and abstain from the offending product. If enough agree, the market will force a modification of the unwanted behavior. Question 3 chooses the unfair and undemocratic route of coercive government meddling and destructive litigation, while it hides its true agenda with deceptively innocuous language. The state House and Senate have already rejected this measure by votes of 2 to 150, and 0 to 34. The public needs to repudiate this extremist initiative by a similarly...
...committees decided to abstain from oroppose other resolutions calling for withdrawal,arguing either that the companies had highSullivan ratings or that there was no proof thatthe companies were selling products to thegovernment...