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Approximately 18 percent of students this fall withheld part of their Undergraduate Council term bill charge, according to the Student Billing Office...
...safety, this information had been withheld from the professor. My only option was to turn to the mysterious middleman again. He assured me that the class was a full course divisible for credit...
...least-favored-nation) -- status as a stick to make countries behave. It has never worked. Instead the use of trade as a political weapon has almost always backfired. The classic example is also the original one: in the mid-1970s, congressional conservatives passed the famous Jackson-Vanik amendment, which withheld MFN from the U.S.S.R. until the Kremlin agreed to let more Soviet Jews emigrate. Just to show who was boss, Leonid Brezhnev decreased the number of exit visas by two-thirds...
...construction will be completed). Baker said that Israel was embarked on a program of "severe and substantial curtailments," greatly improving the chance that Washington will now grant at least part of the $10 billion in loan guarantees Israel has requested to help resettle Russian Jews. The U.S. had pointedly withheld that aid from Rabin's predecessor, Yitzhak Shamir, whose government in the past two years built or began construction on 15,000 housing units...
...perplexing -- anomalies of the international art world. It is the repository of a fabled collection of Impressionist and Postimpressionist works (180 Renoirs, 69 Cezannes, 44 Picassos and numerous Seurats, Gauguins and Modiglianis). Yet because of the harshly restrictive policies of its embittered founder-patron, the Barnes has largely withheld its treasures from public view...