Word: withhold
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cases. Patients in New York were apprehensive about a possible halt in medical treatment. Doctors in nine of the state's counties objected to a new state law aimed at solving their insurance problems and picketed in New York City to express their distress. Many physicians threatened to withhold all but emergency services beginning this week, despite the threats by at least one legislator of action to lift the licenses of those...
Terrible Regret. The first group of about 580 foreigners was evacuated two weeks ago, but journalists who left Cambodia at that time agreed to withhold their stories until the second group of 550 arrived safely in Thailand last week. Apparently because they did not want to accept foreign help, the Khmer Rouge refused an offer by France to provide an evacuation plane. They insisted that all the foreigners, including the aged and sick, endure a 250-mile truck ride to the Cambodian border. Instead of using a direct route, the evacuees rode along winding dirt roads that had served...
...itself, the suit is not enough," she said. "It's meaningless unless people withhold rent...
When questioned on the possibility of a large number of evictions resulting from a rent strike, Paul Watkins, a member of the rent board, said. "Under rent control, a tenant can withhold rent if he has a good reason and notifies the landlord...
...believe that any Congressmen can look at the suffering of the Cambodian people and vote to withhold aid from these oppressed people. What difference should it make if we like President Lon Nol or not? If we help in every way possible to prevent the collapse of the Cambodian government and it still falls, at least we won't have the blood of all the innocent victims on our hands...