Word: withhold
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Fines are great because we can use them to withhold grades from students," Alevizos said, "but that wouldn't work with Faculty. Somehow, they do it at Yale. But we don't really care about money, even though we once collected !1000 from a student...
...Agnew told Nixon that he intends to keep on fighting until he wins. "He's hanging in there," said a White House aide. The two, according to the official version, did not discuss making a joint defense on Constitutional matters affecting both their cases, including whether they can withhold official documents from investigators. Said Agnew: "I'm handling my own case...
...issue a subpoena and authority to command obedience to it. It is this second compulsory process that the President contends may not reach him. The burden yet remains with the President, however, to explain why this must be so. What distinctive quality of the presidency permits its incumbent to withhold evidence? To argue that the need for presidential privacy justifies it is not persuasive. On the occasions when such need justifies suppression, the courts will sustain a privilege. This is a judicial decision...
...grand jury is well known to Anglo-American criminal justice as the people's guardian of fairness. The grand jury derives its authority directly from the people, and when that group, independent in its sphere, acts according to its mandate, the court cannot justifiably withhold its assistance, nor can anyone, regardless of his station, withhold from it evidence not privileged...
...agree and 8% are unsure). White House criticism of the Ervin committee runs up against the finding that two-thirds of the people regard that committee as having functioned in a "fair and open-minded" manner. Almost two-thirds of those polled criticize Nixon's attempt to withhold the tapes of his Watergate-related conversations from the committee and the courts...