Word: withhold
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...held a hearing Wednesday afternoon concerning a Radcliffe senior-who has asked that her name be withhold-for harassing telephone calls traced to her phone...
Viola said that he would withhold judgement on the defense motions until an unspecified later date...
...Egyptians, meanwhile, believe that unless the U.S. forces certain terms upon the Israelis, nobody will. They argue that Washington could accomplish this simply by cutting off its arms aid to the Israelis. "The power to give," says one Egyptian official, "is the power to withhold." The U.S. has sought, albeit unsuccessfully, to persuade Cairo that its influence over Israel falls far short of outright control. Moreover, Washington fears that to cut off Israel's last external source of weaponry would only reduce Egypt's incentive to negotiate seriously with Israel, directly or otherwise. There is also the internal U.S. situation...
...total institution," like a nunnery or a boot camp or a mental hospital. The bargaining power of prisoners looks pretty small. They cannot recruit help from outside, communications are restricted, and they have no alumni association that looks out for them. There's not much they can withhold from the institution; much of their work is "make-work." They even have poor opportunities for violence because so much of the time they are locked up. But once in awhile they start some...
...reopening Suez. Egyptian President Anwar Sadat has two meetings scheduled with Rogers, and will probably spend both trying to persuade the Secretary to pressure Israel into agreeing to a withdrawal from the canal's vicinity. The way to do this, in Egypt's view, is to withhold further U.S. arms...