Word: withheld
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...million a month. Retailing experts estimated that any potential savior would have to spend as much as $100 million to renovate the stores and rebuild basic inventories. Stock had become severely depleted during the past year, in part because manufacturers refused to extend credit to the store and withheld clothing shipments. The bankruptcy court put the chain up for sale but decided to liquidate when no acceptable bidders came forward...
...country's first presidential election in 29 years, Brazil's 82 million voters last week behaved as forecast. They withheld an absolute majority from any of the 21 contenders, opening the way to a second round of voting on Dec. 17 to choose between the two front runners...
...intimidating figure at the statehouse, where she claimed an office a few doors from her husband's. Often she threw her weight around, berating secretaries or barging unannounced into the Governor's corner office during meetings to ask personal questions. Never did Dukakis rebuke her openly. Usually he withheld delicate information from her. Kitty was too prone to spilling secrets...
...directions. It has been aimed at George Bush, at Congress, at CIA director William Webster and at the coup plotters themselves. Last week it targeted a section of a presidential order that bars all direct or indirect U.S. involvement in assassinations. The issue was whether American officials withheld support for the coup out of fear that Noriega might be killed...
...quite impressive the number of timesgroups have ceased to exist because federalrecognition has been withheld," Roessell said...