Word: withhold
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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More than 400 first year students signed the petition, pledging to withhold their grades from the Review if 75 percent of their classmates promised to do the same...
...poor of this country. In a poignant article he wrote for The Washington Monthly in 1975, the journalist James Fallows, a member of the Harvard Class of 1970, recalled that rationalizations he and his classmates used for their action, most notably the argument that it was their duty to withhold themselves from the clutches of America's war machine. Fortunately, as he pointed out, this meant that the course of action that kept them alive was also politically correct. Now Fallows regrets what he did for having contributed to a legacy of class divisions in this country...
...comfort to the enemy." Washington Post Managing Editor Leonard Downie replied that the revelations did not "remotely" threaten national security. "The very sparse information that we published this morning is well known throughout Washington and the world," he insisted. Both the Post and NBC maintained that they continued to withhold technical information about the shuttle mission that was not so widely known...
Sometimes the incidents are not as harmless. When Siegel was a sophomore, his professor in Chemistry 20 gave him very little extra time for completing exams, despite the fact that Siegel takes longer than most students to write. The professor, Siegal says, also threatened to withhold credit because he was unwilling to let Siegel participate in labs...
...field where the scientific stakes are as high as the personal ones, researchers often withhold information from each other as government funding is limited. The need to show significant advancement to attain the necessary support to continue research prevents scientists from cooperating with each other, scientists...