Word: withhold
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Officials now concede that the Administration never intended to propose legislation that would authorize the IRS to withhold the tax exemptions. That decision came only after the protests charging that the White House had sided with racists. Further, while the legislation is working its way through Congress, the two schools involved in the litigation will be eligible temporarily for tax exemption...
...uproar provided China an excuse to withhold, at least for the moment, a key concession Holdridge had been sent to obtain: Peking's denunciation of the Soviet role in the military crackdown in Poland. Nonetheless, U.S. diplomats were heartened that the Chinese did not carry out their earlier threats to downgrade relations with the U.S. if it continued to sell arms to Taiwan...
City councilor David Sullivan, a proponent of the original detector ordinance, said yesterday HRE should have been able to comply with the law by the time it took effect this month. "They've had 19 months," Sullivan said, adding tenants might be able to withhold rents until the detectors were installed. The Harvard Tenants Union mentioned the delay in a letter to Zeckhauser last week...
Since 1971 the Internal Revenue Service has sought to withhold the benefits of tax exemption from the private white academies that were founded in the South and elsewhere to evade integration. Other schools that discriminated for religious reasons also got socked by the IRS. Two of them, the fundamentalist Bob Jones University in South Carolina and North Carolina's Goldsboro Christian Schools, challenged the action as an infringement of their First Amendment right to freedom of religion. When they went to the Supreme Court, they were opposed at first by the Reagan Justice Department. Then came word, just before...
...them less for the danger they all are in. In primitive worlds the high infant mortality rate is said to have inured parents against caring for their children too much. Does the same obtain in places where there is a high parent mortality rate? Perhaps the children begin to withhold some of their love from their parents as a pre-emptive strike against the assassins. It would be reasonable. It would be reasonable too if they loved them less simply for being grownups, for being partly responsible for the weeping in the streets. Yet they seem to love their parents...