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Jackson sued the University and B-School Dean John H. McArthur in 1984. Harvard had denied her tenure once in 1981, and support was again withheld in 1983 after she published a monograph that received strong criticism from two B-School professors...
...Altman and Bonwit Teller are not the sort of stores that stiff their suppliers. But since the spring, several fashion houses have withheld shipments to the swank Manhattan department stores because of late payments. The stores have been caught in the enormous debt problems of their current owner, Australia's Hooker Corp., which is controlled by investor George Herscu. Last week Hooker's U.S. holding company sought protection from its creditors under Chapter 11 bankruptcy...
...William Bennett, the new director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, temporarily banned imported assault weapons. Bush, a life member of the National Rifle Association, kept his distance in public. Opinion polls backed Bennett's move, but gun owners did not. N.R.A. lobbyists complained bitterly and even withheld a pivotal endorsement of Dan Heath, a Republican congressional candidate from Indiana, just a week before the March 28 special election. Heath lost the race by 1,778 votes...
...funny. What Hochschild describes, in fact, is so gloomy, at least for two-career couples who are trying to raise children, that the information should be withheld from the young, or the race may not reproduce. It may not anyway, since the two-career marriage means the certain end of weekday sex, and toil-sharing men are known to be subject to Saturday-night headaches...
...days, then returned home and announced success. Peary tried repeatedly, with all his energy, and in 1909, at the age of 53, nearly made it. But the speeds and distances he claimed to have traveled, Herbert demonstrates, were far beyond the ability of men or dogs. Peary's diary, withheld from historians after his death until Herbert analyzed it, proves that he fell short by as much as 30 to 60 miles. So when this strong and single-minded man returned home from his final trip to the far north, a region he had come to feel he owned...