Word: withhold
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Although the story has not been confirmed, neither the President's office in Washington nor Yale University officials have denied it. This follows a traditional policy of the Yale Corporation to withhold the names of recipients of honorary degrees until the actual presentation on commencement...
...patents on the only color television tube to meet FCC standards. RCA lawyers charged that since 1953 Philco has been conspiring to set up a patent pool that would establish a monopoly position for Philco's own color television equipment. In the process, asserted RCA, Philco plotted to withhold color television from the public until the last dollar was squeezed from black and white sales and sought to undercut public acceptance of RCA's color equipment by pressuring other manufacturers not to use the RCA process...
...Senate-where it seemed more likely to win approval than in the House. The Senate's Government Operations Committee had completed its hearings, but Chairman John McClellan (who opposed the measure) requested a brief delay before submitting the committee report. Since it then appeared that the House would withhold its vote until the Senate acted, Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield graciously agreed: "I believe it is only fair and proper that the Senate observe the normal rules of procedure...
Thurmond also criticized President Kennedy for invoking executive privileges--which he termed of "dubious" legal justification--to withhold the names of individual censors who made changes in speeches...
...presumption hardly lacks justification. There are obvious reasons why unofficial tutorials which demand a student's time yet withhold credit toward the degree and do not provide course reduction cannot expect very much of his commitment. But still more serious consequences are attached to these programs. In English, which has just tossed all its Group III concentrators into the non-credit stew, they are particularly severe. The Department, for example, has promised to continue "individual" tutorial for all Juniors. Yet in the past the practice of many non-credit tutors has been to lump individual tutees together in groups...