Word: withheld
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...system of compensation includes "clawback" provisions, which withhold portions of bonuses contingent on future performance. Managers could lose the withheld portions if future investments perform below benchmark...
Though two of the AFL-CIO's biggest unions, the Teamsters and United Auto Workers, withheld their endorsements last week in hopes of extracting trade protections from the Clinton Administration, the good news for Gore is that he managed to reel in the AFL without making those kinds of concessions. In effect he pulled a Bradley, telling unions they should trust him because of what he is, not what he will do. He glossed over the knottiest issue facing labor: the way free trade exports American jobs and suppresses American wages. And though free traders have proposals for dealing with...
...even within a modern First Amendment framework, it still seems public funding could be withheld from any activity whose only purpose is the desecration, rather than the well-intentioned artistic presentation, of an alternative world view. After all, when government funds all manner of artistic visions equally and then steps back as they compete in the marketplace of ideas, it is merit that determines whatever establishment of truth ensues...
...found a lump in her breast and for treating herself with chemotherapy drugs dropped to the isolated settlement in a daring air mission. She's also made it clear that she's not keen on having every detail of her plight made public - specifics of her condition have been withheld at her request. But that hasn't stopped her saga from being documented and updated almost hourly on CNN, MSNBC et al since it first broke in June. There has been a distinct lack of specifics in the reporting: At this point, it?s not known for certain whether Nielsen...
...provide adequate care. Along with legislation recently enacted in Georgia and Texas, California?s new law wrenches much medical decision-making from the grip of HMOs and hands it back to the patients and their doctors. In most states, HMOs are protected from liability in cases where treatment is withheld or delayed in the interest of economy ?- although if congressional Democrats, led by Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.), prevail in upcoming policy debates, the insurance companies? medical decisions will be fair game. Fierce anti-HMO public opinion and the AMA?s fat checkbook are making patients? rights more politically attractive...