Word: withhold
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Community activists charge, however, that Harvard plans to withhold vital statistics, and they also discount the sincerity and breadth of Harvard's overtures for reconciliation Michael Lambert, a prominent Mission Hill activist, said that Rosen's estimation of "good will" is "absolutely, positively not the case...
Though Thatcher made it clear that she did not intend to pull Britain out of the Community, she is reserving her other options. She could, as urged by some angry members of her own Conservative Party, withhold part of Britain's future contributions to the budget, an act of defiance that ultimately would lead to Britain's political isolation from Europe. Assuming cooler heads prevail in London, Britain is likely to return to the bargaining table this week to assess the damage to its interests and those of its European partners. A showdown in the Falklands was enough...
...senior spring, she was awaiting acceptance by several law schools. But three months ago, a student-faculty committee at Princeton, after a hearing, found the honors student guilty of one of academe's most serious offenses: plagiarism on a term paper. The committee voted unanimously to withhold Napolitano's degree for one year and to pass word of its disciplinary action to the law schools where she had applied. This week Napolitano gets her day in state court in a suit that has temporarily blocked the committee's action and raised an important new issue about...
...trip to the North Pole may put the question most purely: Why all of that expensive motion? Why do we travel? To penetrate mysteries? The earth does not withhold many secrets any more. Everyone who did not, for one reason or another, travel to China last year is sure to go this year. A tour bus runs down nearly every street in the global village. When does travel degenerate into snobbism or a stunt? Lars-Eric Lindblad, impresario of the edifyingly exotic, takes the vacationing bartender where Darwin most remotely went...
...dominance in Latin America. As Haig put it, "The threat to democracy from opponents of peaceful change is particularly acute in El Salvador. The Duarte government is committed to political reform. Its opponents are determined to win by force what they could not achieve by ballot." Added Enders: "To withhold assistance at this point would be to abandon El Salvador...