Word: impounded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...border skirmishes that led to the 1962 war with China. With pugnacious Irani as its managing director, the Statesman also criticized Gandhi's emergency measures. In return, the government has confiscated Irani's passport, forced the paper to miss several editions through censorship delays and tried to impound one of the Statesman's presses...
...system as a means of battling the White House and the big spenders in Congress to achieve a balanced budget. Liberal Democrats believe that the reform would enable them to reshape Republican budgets along more progressive lines. The bill would drastically limit the President's authority to impound funds-refusing to spend money appropriated in bills that had become law. Although the political infighting over budget making is bound to go on, the skirmishing will at least take place within a more systematic framework. That is a prospect that every politician-and taxpayer-can applaud...
...said, "The money has been given to Eliot House and even if we desired, it would not legally be possible to divert it." Bok said that no attempt would be made to divide up the alumni gift or to impound...
Cheap Hotels. In the past year, hope for a federally financed community mental health movement died within the Nixon budget. First the Administration announced plans to phase out the federal grants that support the centers. Then it tried to impound funds already appropriated by Congress. The National Council of Community Mental Health Centers sued and won its money, but left court with an ominous sampling of budgetary battles to come...
...after looking over his colleagues. They had to be, for the unusually heavy pressures and duties facing the court this term were felt almost immediately. In their first important determination of the year, the Justices declined for the moment to consider the President's right to impound congressionally authorized funds...