Word: suspender
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After learning of Sella's promotion, the Administration canceled a joint American-Israeli air-force training course and put Tel Nof off limits to U.S. officers and other officials. In addition, the Administration threatened to suspend its policy of military cooperation with the Israeli air force unless Sella's appointment was rescinded. Last week a federal grand jury in Washington issued an indictment against Sella...
...Board has only been overruled by the whole faculty once, in the winter of 1968. The Ad Board, by a narrow vote of 8-7, had required five students to withdraw for staging a sit-in at a faculty meeting where ROTC was being discussed. The faculty voted to suspend the sentence. One administrator explained at the time, "The action proposed by the Board was more severe than the faculty wanted...
...prime reason for the anger was that Japhet had been forced to step down last year when a government commission criticized his role in the 1983 crash of the value of Israeli bank stocks. As public indignation mounted last week, the bank's board of directors voted to suspend Japhet's "golden handshake." A review of the affair has begun, but few observers expect that Japhet will regain his benefit package...
...Aquino's stunning rise allowed the world a rare chance to suspend its disbelief and exult, 1986 also gave it many more familiar opportunities to distrust its leaders and to weep. Late in the year, the Reagan Administration was suddenly shaken by the disclosure that it had been covertly selling arms to Iran in an attempt to win freedom for American hostages in Lebanon. That dubious policy flared into scandal with the revelation that some of the money received for the arms had been diverted, apparently in violation of congressional laws, to the contra rebels in Nicaragua. As questions multiplied...
Stanford Athletic Director Andy Geiger made the decision to suspend the band, calling members' actions "insulting and lewd...