Word: withhold
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...Samuel K. Doe is a fervent anti-Communist who reportedly practices his English by studying videotapes of President Reagan's speeches. The Administration had hoped it could persuade Doe, who seized power five years ago, to emulate the U.S. in other ways as well. Officials in Washington threatened to withhold U.S. aid if he did not hold free and fair elections. Liberia, founded 138 years ago by freed U.S. slaves, receives some $85 million a year from...
...last three months of pregnancy and against the women's wishes. Antiabortion activists in and out of the Reagan Administration have long fought to stop the use of American dollars for such programs, and last week they scored a victory. The Agency for International Development said it would withhold $10 million from the United Nations Fund for Population Activities, which has sent money to China for birth control. Instead, said M. Peter McPherson, the agency's administrator, the money would be "reprogrammed" toward family planning services in other countries...
Under pressure from administrators at Harvard and at other universities across the country which refuse restricted research, Pentagon officials recently said they would drop plans under consideration to withhold publication rights on basic SDI work...
...those banks agreed to extend through the end of the century Mexico's repayments on $48.7 billion of the total amount due. About 30 banks, however, have yet to sign the accord, and there are concerns among bankers that the impact of the great quake may lead them to withhold their signatures even longer. "Unless all banks sign," says one U.S. financier, "the whole package could come unstrung." Moreover, Mexican officials estimated last month that they would need about $3 billion in new foreign loans in 1986 to keep economic growth at its current rate of about 3% annually. Banks...
There are certain inalienable rights, and of course freedom of choice and expression rank high among them. Ideally no vote should result in the removal of such rights, but oftentimes a public confused by demagoguery does just that. Cambridge officials were right to withhold the anti-porn measure from a public referendum. They are still right even if, as the majority contends, the measure would have certainly failed, in court if not on the ballot. In fact it is their duty as elected officials to protect the public from voting away a liberty...