Word: withhold
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After reaching its decision, the committee was told by the student's parents that the student had not been notified of the hearing until after the hearing had taken place. Nevertheless, the committee decided not to withhold the decision and hold a new hearing; it placed the student under separation pending an appeal...
...been a popular choice among the Beacon Hill-Upper East Side-Main Line members of the Harvard establishment. A scholarship student from a Midwestern high school, he was hardly in their tradition. But the State Street bankers, and their St. Grottlesex classmates who dominated the Faculty, were willing to withhold judgment. For a time, things seemed to be working out, and the angry murmurs in the lounges of the Somerset and Union clubs died down somewhat. But to the traditional Brahmin, religion has always been more lip service than piety, and the idea that a Harvard President should be fanatical...
...Committee voted to withhold degrees from two seniors-for two years in one case-and required two students to withdraw for a term. It gave one-year suspended requirements to withdraw to three students, and warnings to two; these five students -especially the first three-are more liable to punishment in the future...
Rejecting the guerrillas' demands as "insolent," the government ordered massive arrests of leftists; close to 1,000 were detained. The government also introduced a law in the Turkish Parliament making kidnaping punishable by death-even for those who simply withhold information concerning the crime. Istanbul's 6,000-man police force, meanwhile, combed the city, concentrating on the European side of the Bosporus. A note from Elrom had been mailed to his wife from Aksaray, a district in Istanbul's old quarter. "I am O.K.," he wrote. "Do not worry...
Citing the apartheid policies which prevail at the Boyden Station, 71 students, faculty and employees at the two observatories in Cambridge wrote a letter to Smithsonian officials asking that they withhold support from the South African observatory...