Word: withdraw
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gesture of support for Puerto Rico's independence movement, refused to let the mayor of San Juan join 13 other U.S. mayors in a tour of Chinese cities. The mayors canceled the entire visit as a result, but Washington got the message: If the U.S. does not withdraw its support for China's island-Taiwan -China will not recognize U.S. sovereignty over Puerto Rico...
...Third World majority at the U.N. Among the most immediate losers in the proceedings were the black Africans, who had been seeking support for the U.N.'s Decade for Action to Combat Racism, a worldwide offensive against apartheid in southern Africa. Now the Western powers are threatening to withdraw their support...
Those given the go-ahead include pushing the thermometers in some University buildings down to 65 in winter and up to 80 in summer; closing Dudley Hall, the Lehmann Hall dining facility for commuters, substituting continental for full breakfasts in over half the Houses; and charging boarders who withdraw for the full term instead of merely for the meals they have eaten...
...Gordon, professor of Chemistry and the commission's chairman, said last week that the complaints concerned several investigative articles published in The Crimson last year. One of them--involving Stephen S. Rosenfeld '75, who was required to withdraw from the College for forging Phi Beta Kappa and graduate school recommendations-became nationally known, making the front page of The New York Times...
...first rule in the Handbook of Undergraduate Regulations is that everyone must know the rules. Students caught deliberately sneaking a book out of the library are "ordinarily requested to withdraw," posters over 8 1/2 inches by 11 inches require prior approval of the dean, and no student may play "boisterous games in the Yard." The rules seem fairly innocuous...