Word: withdrawal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...biggest blow came last week, when Chrysler Chairman Lee Iacocca approved a decision to withdraw all 36 of the 30-second ads his company had planned to run on the mini-series, at a cost of more than $6 million. A company statement said the commercials, which have an upbeat "born in America" theme, would be "both inappropriate and of diminished effectiveness" in the context of the program. ABC is trying to sell the time elsewhere, but will force Chrysler to make up the difference for any lost ad revenue. Two other advertisers, General Foods Corp. and Northwestern Mutual ! Life...
Between 1970 and 1975, the CRR ruled on 369 cases stemming from 13 incidents--including a 1972 six day sit-in at Massachusetts Hall by 32 students--resulting in 63 students being required to withdraw...
...last student representative to sit on the Board was sent by the freshman council in 1978 with a formal list of student demands including one for open hearings and another for an appeals process. The delegate was withdraw when the faculty turned down the demands...
That same year, a well-known Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) member was required to withdraw three days before graduation for occupying the Government Department's office for six hours. The Committee on Rights and Responsibilities (CRR), which handed down both decisions, explained that the SDS member was punished more harshly because she had a previous disciplinary record...
Undergraduate staged a series of sit-ins and demonstrations against the accredited ROTC courses which Harvard offered. in 1968-9, five students were required to withdraw for staging a sit-in at a December 1968 faculty meeting. their sentence were suspended, but the trouble didn't stop there...