Word: withhold
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spring of 1970, I notified you that I would withhold payment of this telephone tax which was specifically enacted as a tax to support expenditures incurred in the Vietnam War. I indicated that I found that war to be morally indefensible and to be degrading to our nation, and that I took the step of conscientiously withholding payment of the telephone excise tax as a symbolic protest against a war being illegally waged in the name of the American people...
...second requirement for a policy of tenacity is a lack of pressure from Washington. Israelis were heartened last week by President Nixon's press-conference promise that the U.S. still has no intention of imposing a peace settlement on Israel. Nixon also indicated that his Administration would never withhold arms from Israel because to do so would be to upset the military balance that has helped to prevent all-out war in the incendiary area...
...have been restricted by Congress, and American steelmen complain that huge coal purchases by Japan are driving up the price of fuel and tying up rail cars. Some top U.S. businessmen, worried about the steady inroads of Japanese finished goods into American markets, have suggested that U.S. companies should withhold raw materials altogether, as a means of thwarting that drive. Partly to anticipate such trouble, the Japanese government recently warned its businessmen in a pamphlet: "We must be careful not to give the impression that Japan is interested only in plundering natural resources. Any operation the Japanese engage in must...
TaxPax, an organization of Harvard students and faculty members, started circulating a petition to withhold the phone tax last Tuesday. The petition included the stipulation that the names of the signers would not be made public until 1000 people had signed it. That number was reached on Thursday...
Mendelsohn is now drafting a letter which he will send to some 800 members of the Faculty urging them to withhold their phone...