Word: withhold
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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High Feelings. Last month the House of Representatives got into the act by taking the unprecedented-and perhaps unconstitutional-step of voting to withhold any appropriations to pay for further negotiations (TIME, July 21). It was a sign of how high feelings run over the issue, both in Congress and, as Henry Kissinger discovered during his recent domestic forays, across the land. Former Army Secretary Howard Callaway-who is now Gerald Ford's campaign manager-declaimed that: "There's a feeling in this country that Teddy Roosevelt helped the Panamanians get their independence, negotiated the treaty, paid...
...wide Canal Zone, a quasi-U.S. colony created under a 1903 treaty. But a flag-waving lobby in Congress has stubbornly opposed renegotiation of the 19th century-style arrangement. Two weeks ago, in a move that shocked the Administration as unprecedented and possibly unconstitutional, the House voted to withhold any appropriations to pay for negotiations...
...legislature, which has already enacted a bill offering a doctor-owned alternative (TIME, June 9), must do more to protect them against the rising risk of being wiped out by malpractice suits. To ensure that it does, a number of doctors said last week that they were willing to withhold their services indefinitely. A few, who claimed that they would lose $15,000 a month by striking, insisted that they were acting in the public interest. Others, acknowledging that people tend to protest mainly when they are being hurt in their wallets, admitted that their motives were more personal. Said...
Since then the CTOC and other Cambridge groups have filed a class action suit in federal court charging conflict of interest and violation of due process in the December rent increase. Additionally, they have been organizing tenants to withhold rent increases...
...extremely complex," but "the Medical School did not act hastily" in its decision to withhold the diploma. There is an "appropriate basis" for its decision, he said...