Word: withhold
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bills differ in specific provisions but are similar in thrust, proposing a broad approach that would pour money into enforcement education, rehabilitation and crop eradication, and would withhold aid from recalcitrant producer countries...
...been a tough two weeks for William Rehnquist. Questions about his views on race and his role in the preWatergate Justice Department had briefly threatened to stall his nomination as Chief Justice of the U.S. The White House made matters worse by invoking Executive privilege to withhold his memorandums advising on ways to handle the civil disturbances and other legal matters of the early 1970s...
...been exempt from antitrust laws ever since a 1922 Supreme Court decision, other pro sports are not. Alleging that the N.F.L. had "willfully acquired and maintained a monopoly," the U.S.F.L. charged the older league with trying to drive it out of business, principally by leaning on the networks to withhold television contracts...
...legacies so much as consolidated them, affirming the earlier rulings even as it modified and diluted them. It was a court that could move boldly when it needed to. It upheld the right of the press to publish the Pentagon papers. It ruled unanimously that Richard Nixon could not withhold the damning White House tapes sought by the Watergate special prosecutor. But it did not reverse outright a single one of the major Warren doctrines...
...weeks the Administration has forcefully been pressuring the press to withhold information strikingly similar to what was being openly disclosed in the Baltimore court. As the trial got under way, NSA Director William Odom and CIA Director William Casey issued an extraordinary statement admonishing / that the information revealed at the trial should not be a pretext for further disclosures about intelligence methods. Citing the "competing interests" of prosecutorial revelations and the need to protect the national security, the two intelligence chiefs warned reporters against "speculation and reporting details beyond the information actually released at trial." Allan Adler, legislative counsel...