Word: withheld
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...smart and rich, however, would give large sums to the museum without the blessings of top university officials; in recent times especially people didn't give large sums precisely because they feared these blessings would be withheld. You don't have to be around Cambridge very long to know that when the president and the dean want to encourage a project, they have funds to do so, and that they do so decisively all the time. Still, this is not absolutely essential. But they have also withheld the essential blessings without which Harvard fundraising never succeeds. They now tell...
According to a federal appeals court, the Justice Department committed fraud and "acted with reckless disregard for the truth" when it withheld evidence that could have prevented the 1986 deportation of Cleveland autoworker John Demjanjuk. The evidence would have shown that someone else may have been Ivan the Terrible, the Nazi death-camp guard Demjanjuk was accused of being...
...Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals found that Ryan, the former director of the Justice Department's elite Nazi-hunting unit, the Office of Special Investigations, intentionally withheld evidence in the Demjanjuk case and is guilty of prosecutorial misconduct...
This time Ivory and his longtime colleagues have gone their source one better, or one quieter: the film is even more discreet, more Stevens-like, than the book. They have withheld the revelations of tears and admission of heartbreak that finally clatter around the butler like broken Wedgwood. Here, Stevens will never wake violently from his reverie of duty served; he will be trapped in Darlington Hall like a bird that can't find an open window. So the filmmakers have dared believe that the audience will detect these domestic cataclysms in the performance of the man who plays Stevens...
...statements of these 37, most of whom were executed by the Soviets as Nazi collaborators, were not obtained by Israeli courts until 1991. But as early as 1978, U.S. officials who handled Demjanjuk's case had the testimony of two of the guards, a fact they withheld from Demjanjuk's lawyers...