Word: withhold
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tenants. But the growth of apartment living in the U.S. has raised sharp questions about landlords who blithely ignore faulty heating, lighting and plumbing. In that spirit, a decision written by Judge J. Skelly Wright for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia empowered tenants to withhold rent if the landlord fails to keep the premises in decent condition. Now all D.C. landlords are accountable and no tenant can be evicted for using his rent as a weapon to enforce his right to a habitable dwelling. Last week the Supreme Court denied the landlord's petition...
...with Gus and Archie heaving up two days' worth of booze) and even a cruel one. But it is impossible to keep from smiling at Archie's dealing with a London cabbie ("He wants some bobs. Give him some bobs"). It is equally impossible to withhold sympathy over Harry's half-drunken confession: "Aside from sex-and my wife's very good at it, goddamn her-I like you guys better. I love you." Cassavetes has gambled on his characters' own humanity to bring them close and make them true...
...things. It can simply acknowledge a de facto situation, without making any moral judgments about it. As Canada's Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau has put it: "To recognize the Peking government does not mean that we approve of what it is doing." In some instances, however, governments withhold recognition from a country because it endangers the peace or harasses its neighbors. Many African nations refuse to recognize South Africa because it denies equal rights to blacks and mixed-blood "coloreds." At the same time, many of them do not protest Peking's use of terror against its citizens...
...TIME'S report, "Chile: The Expanding Left" [Oct. 19], has judged the Allende coalition prematurely. Prejudicial fears often become self-fulfilling prophecies. The surest way to force Allende into the Communist camp is to withdraw or withhold American capital and industry from Chile at this time. I hope we will not react in a manner that will make it imperative for Chile to seek aid from other (perhaps Communist) nations. If we do, we have no one to blame but ourselves. American industry may lose some of its grip on Chile's economy, but that is not necessarily...
...spite of today's court action, a group of Cambridge tenants plan to withhold a portion of their November rent payments...