Word: withhold
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...city council of the Midwestern metropolis has issued a resolution "deploring" and "condemning" Harvard's decision to withhold the diplomas of four anti-apartheid protesters pending a decision on discipline. The resolution also praises two Harvard students--both from Cleveland--for their courage in protesting South Africa's apartheid regime at a demonstration last...
...latest strategy in loan collection--enacted to help finance the almost $200 billion federal deficit--allows the department to ask the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to withhold one million student income tax refunds up to the amount owed, unless payments are made within 60 days or other arrangements are made. Education Secretary William J. Bennett announced this week...
...remain a confused patchwork. Courts have generally but not uniformly ruled that a competent patient has a right to refuse medical treatment (34 states and the District of Columbia recognize "living wills" that forbid extreme treatments). The incompetent and comatose present complex problems. If doctors and families agree to withhold treatment, doctors often quietly practice what they call "judicious neglect," but disagreements still end noisily in court...
Democratic fears of U.S. military involvement have been fueled by ominous warnings from Administration officials concerned about the cutoff of contra aid. Secretary of State George Shultz, for example, told the American Bar Association last month that if Congressmen continued to withhold assistance "they are hastening the day when the threat will grow and we will be faced with an agonizing choice about the use of American combat troops." The New York Times printed a pair of articles last week speculating that the Administration was moving closer to the invasion option. "That's foolish," charged White House Spokesman Larry Speakes...
...ADMINISTRATION has repeatedly said that it wants to deal with the protests as quickly as possible to avoid having to withhold needlessly the diplomas of seniors involved in the demonstrations...