Word: withhold
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Worthy stresses the vital need for leaders to resist the temptation to "withhold news of negative developments" when the struggle has begun. People can absorb temporary defeats, but they leave the battle if they are lied to, or if their leaders are not fully "accurate in technical, legal and political information" that they disseminate...
...illness. Now, such pay is taxed as heavily as the income a worker earns when he is healthy. The only exception is payments to people under 65 who are totally and permanently disabled-and in some cases even they may not qualify. Making matters worse, many employers did not withhold tax from paychecks mailed to sick workers during most of 1976, because the law making such income taxable was not passed until late last year. Workers must now come up with the extra tax in cash, a total of $380 million...
Among the requirements of the recent laws: creditors must spell out interest, financing and other charges. A department store, for example, must inform buyers that the interest charge of l½% a month on the unpaid balance in a revolving-credit account amounts to 18% a year. Debtors may withhold payment of a bill they believe to be incorrect, and the creditor must explain the billing within 90 days. A credit cardholder is liable for only $50 in purchases that someone else charges on a lost or stolen card. If a merchant or lender turns down an application for credit...
Chernak added that he did not withhold the money because Exposure had criticized B.U. President John R. Silber, as reported in The Crimson and The Boston Globe...
Freed from the necessity of wooing voters or answering opponents, Mrs. Gandhi was able to sidestep her socialistic promises of welfare programs and land reform. To contain inflation, the government in effect banned strikes and required employers to withhold and deposit in banks money awarded to workers in wage increases. Production quotas on private industry were lifted. (Businesses had not been allowed to produce as much as they could, out of socialistic concern that their owners might get too rich.) The dominant state-owned sector of industry, which deals in such key goods as steel, coal and iron...