Word: desist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...agent or landlord refuses to discuss the matter, the housing aide advises the applicant to file a complaint with the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination. The MCAD may then decide to issue a cease and desist order...
...must desist from talking about 'winning' or 'prevailing' in the Cold War." Hughes asserted. "Rather, we must begin to talk about ending the Cold War." Outlining an immediate four-part program toward that goal, Hughes demanded the unequivocal renunciation of a first strike by the United States, a halt to nuclear testing, U.S. refusal to help other countries including allies to develop nuclear power, and the creation of "nuclear free zones" such as Africa and Central Europe...
Instant Justice. Worrying the ad community is the FTC's recent cease-and-desist order against Colgate-Palmolive Co. and its hard-selling agency, Ted Bates & Co. In a Bates TV commercial, Palmolive's Rapid Shave cream was applied to "sandpaper," and the sand was shaved cleanly off. But Dixon's FTC found Bates had used Plexiglas instead of sandpaper and that sand was not in fact shaved off the real thing. The FTC then ordered that Colgate and Bates should never again falsely advertise shaving cream or use "spurious mock-ups or demonstrations for any product...
Battle Ahead. All three companies indicted last week were already engaged in a three-year-old fight with the Federal Trade Commission on similar charges. But the severest punishment the FTC could have inflicted was a relatively mild cease-and-desist order. If the Justice Department proves its case in court, the drug companies could draw fines of up to $150,000 each, and their chief executives would be liable to as much as a year in jail plus $50,000 fines. But the embattled drug executives clearly had no intention of surrendering without a fight. Snapped Pfizer...
...issue was a Security Council resolution inspired by 42 Afro-Asian states, demanding that Portugal "desist forthwith from repressive measures" in Angola and take "immediate steps" toward giving Angola self-government and independence. The Russians loudly demanded outright condemnation of the Portuguese, hoping to force the U.S. into the position of "protecting" the colonialist Portuguese...