Word: withhold
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...break with the White House, Burford told her aides, who dutifully leaked her remarks to the press, that Reagan and his advisers had botched the EPA crisis from start to finish. She said that she thought Reagan had received bad advice and that she had opposed his decision to withhold subpoenaed documents from House subcommittees probing charges of mismanagement, conflict of interest and political favoritism in the $1.6 billion Superfund program to clean up the nation's worst toxic dumps...
...current Administration has already exhibited a dangerous proclivity to withhold information. It has attempted to hide potentially self-incriminating documents on a variety of fronts, attacking the Freedom of Information Act, proposed restrictions on "advocacy" (including lobbying) by any group receiving Federal grants, and most recently withholding documents subpoenaed by Congress on the part of the Environmental Protection Agency. Last month's move against three films continues this trend of stifling open debate--debate which focuses this time on the highly deleterious effects of acid rain and the nuclear arms buildup. Of the three Canadian films censored by the Justice...
...encoded information is the very mainspring of drama, suspense, excitement and adventure. The screening of information has always been indispensable to both war and peace, to murder and romance, to spying and spirituality. Extreme privacy plays a prominent role in the most ancient myths. Irascible Zeus, who intended to withhold the knowledge of fire from humans, was outraged when he learned that Prometheus had gone public with it. Zeus was so put off that he assembled a plethora of troubles and sent them down to mortals in the custody of Pandora. Everybody knows the calamity that resulted from the insistence...
...Newly elected President Amin Gemayel is concerned that the continuing presence of foreign troops will undermine his attempt to restore the government's authority over the country. The Lebanese are also aware of the feelings of their powerful Arab friends, and with reason. Saudi Arabia has threatened to withhold urgently needed reconstruction funds for Lebanon if Gemayel's government concludes an agreement that deals with topics other than an Israeli withdrawal...
...current budget, reducing it to $241 million. Reagan, who believes the LSC is misused by ultraliberal lawyers, has undercut its effectiveness by appointing an interim eleven-member board of directors, most of whom are basically opposed to what the corporation does. Last week the board signaled its intent to withhold funds from local groups that it deemed too "activist," and next year it is likely to attempt to block legal services lawyers from filing class-action suits. Joseph Rauh, longtime civil rights lawyer, calls Reagan's appointments "the most disgusting fox-in-the-chicken-coop maneuver...