Word: withheld
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...commit suicide. Last week the troubles of former National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane continued. He became the first Reagan Administration official to plead guilty to crimes in the scandal. After negotiations with Special Prosecutor Lawrence Walsh, McFarlane, 50, admitted that on four occasions in 1985 and 1986 he unlawfully withheld information from Congress about the National Security Council's secret military aid to the Nicaraguan rebels...
...case's controversy, which has swept waiting rooms and operating rooms across the country. Unfortunately, the AMA never spells out the "certain circumstances" under which euthanasia is condoned. What's the difference between an "intentionally caused" death and a death caused when life-sustaining treatment is withheld...
...only one of the cruder types, and it is sometimes subdued by other forms: a moral gravitas, for example. Martin Luther King Jr. brought his gravitas to bear against men of power who were morally vacant. Gravitas may be aggression, but it may express itself otherwise, as something withheld, as a dignity and forbearance...
Watson was seeded second in the finals of the backstroke, but moved out after 50 yards and withheld a strong bid by Walt Sopp of Penn State to grab the top spot with a time of 51.42 seconds...
Cohen is vice-chairman of the Intelligence Committee and was also a member of the Iran-Contra committee which investigated the sale of U.S. arms to Iran and the diversion of some of the profits to the Contra guerrillas. President Reagan withheld notice from Congress for 10 months about the Iranian arms sales...