Word: withdraw
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Faculty voted to withdraw ROTC facilities, course credit, and Faculty status for staff officers after the April 1969 takeover of University Hall. It recommended that ROTC "operate as other ordinary extracurricular activities" without special privilege accorded through "contract or informal agreement...
When Outfielder Carolyn King, 12, tried out for the Orioles, an Ypsilanti, Mich., Little League baseball team, she beat out 15 boys and qualified for a starting position. Not long afterward, Little League headquarters in Williamsport, Pa., cited its rule barring girls from league teams and threatened to withdraw the Orioles' charter. Ypsilanti's city councilmen issued a counterthreat...
...support for South Africa that met its exacting--some would say ridiculous--standards of what was "reasonable." It would generally oppose resolutions with whose specifics it disagreed--even if it professed support for the principles involved. And it would oppose or abstain on most substantive resolutions to have companies withdraw from or start affirmative action programs in white-ruled areas of Africa, to have companies stop supplying the weaponry for the war in Indochina, or even to have companies set up study committees on such problems as conversion to peacetime production or apparently dangerous conditions in a company's coal...
Radcliffe's present relationship with Harvard will continue at least until the re-evaluation in 1975; it is unlikely that Radcliffe will either withdraw to her former degree of separateness, or yet become totally "merged." Because women still remain in a minority at most levels within the University, and will undoubtedly remain so for some time to come, total absorption into a complex organization with a multitude of other pressing concerns could lessen the volume of women's voices considerably. The present separate advocacy will not permit this...
...continue to direct the probe and to read the transcripts of the secret grand jury proceedings. In his present position Petersen will have a decisive role in determining who shall be indicted and on what charges. So far, Petersen has rebuffed all suggestions from his subordinates that he withdraw...