Word: withhold
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first place. The Administration initially insisted that even if Congress refused to vote more funds for bombing, the Government would get money from past appropriated funds. But under mounting congressional pressure, Defense Secretary Elliot Richardson, who is also Acting Attorney General, conceded that if both houses voted to withhold funds, then the Administration would respect the curb...
...could soon be severely limited. As a diplomat in Paris observed last week, "Kissinger could use the carrot-and-stick technique-alternating the threat of more bombing with the prospect of American economic aid for the reconstruction of North Viet Nam. But now it looks as though Congress may withhold the carrot and take away the stick...
Because pain and suffering are subjective elements, the question arises of who should say the patient is in too much agony to continue treatment. In how many cases, where a decision to withhold lifesaving treatments is based on the patient's assessment of pain, would the patient have been able to make an unpredicted recovery with treatment--regardless of the small odds given by doctors...
Fourth Circuit Chief Judge Clement Haynsworth, one of Nixon's aborted Supreme Court Justices, ruled that funds for the operation of a campus newspaper cannot be cut off solely because college officials disagree with the newspaper's editorial opinions. The wording was exceedingly plain: "[College administrators] can't withhold funds just because they don't like what a campus paper prints...
...sports arbitration board. "These people," he said after 27 months of investigation and deliberation, "make the Teamsters look like undernourished doves." Kheel's board, however, did issue an opinion in 1968 that spelled out the Jurisdictional rights of both groups. It also provided that neither could "unreasonably" withhold approval of the other's events. The A.A.U. accepted the proposal; the N.C.A.A., complaining that the decision was "a complete misstatement of facts," rejected it. The conflict escalated further this year when the N.C.A.A. withdrew from the U.S. Olympic Committee and Director Byers asked the N.C.A.A.'s 664 member...