Word: suspender
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...prepare for the hectic Feast of the Assumption weekend that ended last Monday, French officials advised local authorities of their power to suspend the licenses of reckless drivers on the spot. A magistrate in one high- accident district promptly seized four licenses in less than 45 minutes. Zealous public servants suspended more than 2,000 licenses during the three- day holiday...
...Federal Aviation Administration play fair when the company won a $3.6 billion contract to upgrade the computers in the U.S. air-traffic- control system? No way, according to losing bidder Hughes Aircraft, which last week persuaded the General Services Administration to suspend the contract pending an investigation...
...Medical Research. The initial findings were apparently reproduced by scientists in France, Canada, Israel and Italy. Nonetheless, the report was accompanied by an editorial by Editor John Maddox that was almost apologetic. "There are good and particular reasons," he wrote, "why prudent people should, for the time being, suspend judgment." Last week Nature forthrightly rejected the idea of water with a memory and relegated it to the deep freeze, along with other intriguing scientific "discoveries" that have not panned out under scrutiny...
...behalf of Jackson that California Assemblyman Willie Brown, a top Jackson campaign official moved to suspend the rules and nominate Dukakis by acclamation...
When Brown refused to read a formal apology, his colleagues voted to suspend the Scottish M.P. for four weeks and ordered him to pay the $1,800 cost of repairing the silver-gilt mace. Brown enraged his party's leader, Neil Kinnock, who assailed him for "loutishness...